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His wife, being a woman, couldn't help herself, Jeff.

Remember, that's Alito's philosophy -- that states may control women's choices, because Alito and his fellow arrogant on the Clarence court believe women can't at all be trusted themselves.

Also, remember the text he wrote in killing Roe -- that women may all too easily be witches, as one of his feudal male heroes argued, when that medieval hero was for killing women outright.

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What? Women may be witches? Alito really wrote that?

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In his text killing Roe, he quoted with approval a medieval English jurist who believed women become witches and need to be executed.

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Ah. Yes I found a propublica article about that. Nasty jurist who created two hundred years of misogyny against women in our legal system, including the concept that wives cannot be raped by their husband because wives agreed to all sex when they married, and the notion of blaming women who are raped for being"tempting" by what they wore or not sufficiently fighting, or even worse, not being of good enough character to care what happened to them.

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The record, clear, Barbara -- not just on Alito always arrogating himself and his medieval views.

He, like Clarence, also takes bribes from the rich (though with faint-hearted efforts to do it in secret). Both voted for Citizens United back in 2010, giving American government to the rich.

Might Chief Justice John Roberts exercise some spine and insist these most eminently corrupt resign their life-long sinecures?

Sorry, Barbara, Roberts joined the 5-4 majority for Citizens United, legalizing the corruption of government -- it's fine for the corporations and the billionaires to do the corrupting.

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