The idea that Samuel Alito accepted all this, then claimed that it was all fine is comical.
Justice Samuel Alito Jr., a Jersey guy with a taste for the finer things. Once again, a justice on our nation’s highest court has been exposed for accepting lavish personal gifts from billionaires with interests in court decisions, failing to disclose it publicly, then voting in their favor.
given that his ultrawealthy host, Singer, has had at least 10 cases before the Supreme Court. In one of them that the Court took up after this trip, it ruled in favor of Singer’s hedge fund, netting him $2.4 billion. Talk about a return on investment. “As far as I am aware,” he goes on to add, the seat on Singer’s private jet would have been vacant had he not been sitting in it. But how would he know that, either? Did he ask?
What Alito did is worlds beyond Supreme Court justices taking summer teaching gigs at law schools in picturesque Italian cities when court is not in session, as Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus points out – there, the students benefit, the justices benefit and so do the law schools; it’s an enriching thing.
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