It appears that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a bona fide conservative, is just as frustrated with fellow Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh as former President Donald Trump.
According to reports, after Barrett and Kavanaugh joined Democrats and ostensible conservative Chief Justice John Roberts last Thursday in voting to keep Obamacare intact and to avoid a sweeping ruling on religious liberty, Alito was “pissed.”
“I think Alito was just pissed. He was frustrated,” South Texas College of Law professor Josh Blackman said to Politico.
He added that despite the justices’ ostensible ideological classifications (six conservatives, three liberals), these days it seems like “you have a three-three-three court” instead.
Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan are the liberal justices. Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh and Roberts are the conservative-light justices. And Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas are the conservative justices.
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