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Reportedly holding millions in oil/gas assets, Alito declines recusal from case that could shield US firms from foreign litigation. {The Guardian 11 August}
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/samuel-alito-oil-gas-assets-supreme-court-analysis
Constitutional reform of the high court: yet another vitally important matter that the dominant white working-class electorate — the #MAGA hordes and the legions of Christian Nationalists, none too fond of democracy by nature, foremost among them — and their Republican overlords shall never permit to be addressed. For my own part, there is considerable doubt that expansion of the court is the proper remedy; I am, however, wholeheartedly in favour of abolishing lifetime appointments, instituting strict term limits, and putting an end to the practice of judicial infallibility — for if we dug hard enough into the conduct of all nine sitting Justices, we would almost certainly uncover behaviour warranting removal from office in more than one instance. At present, we possess virtually no workable mechanism by which Justices may be held to account; what constitutional mechanisms that do exist are all but impossible to invoke. It is an absurd system in which far too many persons maintain a vested interest, and therefore will never permit its reform.
Little doubt I harbour that had the majority — or indeed the entirety — of the so-called ‘Founding Fathers’ of this American empire been able to foresee the eventual consequences of their structuring of the judiciary, they would have reconsidered entirely. Perhaps they might never have rebelled against the Crown to begin with, had they been afforded (or cursed with) a glimpse of twenty-first-century #Murica; and had they beheld figures such as Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas (though their eighteenth-century sensibilities would absolutely not have approved of a black man serving on the high court — a fact Justice Thomas appears to be wilfully indifferent to — they would nonetheless be legitimately appalled by the conduct in question). Who is to say with any certainty? All that I can assert with confidence is this: the great American experiment hath gone catastrophically awry, and it is time to end it.
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