Hofstra Law Professor James Sample was quoted in the Salon article “‘Politician with robes’: Expert says secret tape exposes Samuel Alito’s ‘apocalyptic vision.’”
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The audio, obtained and first reported by Rolling Stone, came just weeks after reports of far-right-aligned flags being flown outside Alito’s home sparked widespread backlash. The reports follow a year of ethics scandal-exposés involving both him and Justice Clarence Thomas. The newly revealed recordings have similarly prompted harsh rebuke of the justice, with legal experts decrying Alito’s boosting of Christian nationalist rhetoric on the tapes as unethical.
“Justice Alito’s recorded comments aren’t so much revealing as they are confirming,” James Sample, a Hofstra University constitutional law professor, told Salon. “They reinforce what we already know: that Justice Alito sees his raison d’etre as being more of an ideological culture warrior more than a jurist. And he’s indisputably winning the wars he is waging.”
Read the full article on the Salon website.
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