“Imagine that for the remainder of his time on the court, Alito wore a MAGA hat during oral arguments. It might not tell us anything we didn’t already know about his unabashedly partisan sentiments. But it would still be a shocking demonstration of contempt for the role he is supposed to play as a judge.”
— Democrats shouldn’t let Justice Alito get away with his flag scandals
today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.
but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.
the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.