More Supreme Court Corruption

It turns out that in addition to his now-infamous fishing trip, just last year Alito took an all expense paid trip to Rome paid for a right-wing advocacy group based at Notre Dame University:

Last July, Alito was feted in Rome by Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Initiative, which has in recent years joined the growing ranks of conservative legal activists who are finding new favor at the Supreme Court – and forging ties with the justices. The group’s legal clinic has filed a series of “friend-of-the-court” briefs in religious liberty cases before the Supreme Court since its founding in 2020.

After the high court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the group paid for Alito’s trip to Rome to deliver a keynote address at a gala hosted at a palace in the heart of the city. It was his first known public appearance after the decision.

At the start of his speech, he thanked the group for the “warm hospitality” it provided to him and his wife, which, he later said, included a stay at a hotel that “looks out over the Roman Forum.”

During various parts of the address, he gleefully mocked critics of his ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion. What really “wounded” him, the conservative justice said, was when Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, “addressed the United Nations and seemed to compare ‘the decision whose name may not be spoken’ with the Russian attack on the Ukraine.”

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Stephanie Barclay, the Religious Liberty Initiative’s director, confirmed to CNN that the group paid for Alito’s trip to Rome last year.

Alito can't claim that he did not know who these people were.

In other news, it appears that Amy Coney Barrett sold her house to a member of the RLI, Brendan Wilson, who is described as, "adjunct professor of law with responsibility for the transactional component of the Religious Liberty Clinic.

It should be noted that the home sold for more than the asking price of $899,900, it sold for $905,000.

It's only $5,100, but it is also clearly the equivalent of a dope dealer "Giving a taste" to a prospective customer.

If she plays ball, and does not go off the reservation, she can see the sort of swag that Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch have seen.

It appears that Justice Barrett is a quick learner,