>Trump, gun owners and Jan. 6
>rioters: Tough-on-crime Justice
>Alito displays empathy for some
>criminal defendants
>May 11
>
>Conservative Justice Samuel Alito,
>a former U.S. attorney with a long
>history of voting in favor of
>prosecutors, has shown signs of
>empathy for defendants in recent
>cases involving gun owners,
>Jan 6. rioters and former President
>Donald Trump.
>
>Alito, appointed in 2006 by
>Republican President George W.
>Bush, has a reputation for being
>the justice on the court most
>hostile to criminal defendants.
>Earlier in his career, he was
>a U.S. attorney in New Jersey
>and held several other positions
>in the Justice Department.
>
>But in several recent oral arguments
>in some of the most contentious cases
>currently before the court, Alito has
>notably raised questions about the
>Justice Department's decisions to
>prosecute certain cases, expressed
>sympathy for Trump's argument that
>former presidents should be immune
>from prosecution, and aired
>concerns about gun owners being
>charged. Rulings in all the cases
>are due by the end of June.
>
>Neil Siegel, a professor at Duke
>University School of Law, said
>it struck him that someone with
>Alito's background as a
>prosecutor would make such
>remarks.
>
>"It's really quite puzzling
>that the most pro-government,
>anti-criminal-defendant
>justice is the one who when
>it comes to President Trump
>being a criminal defendant
>is willing to slander the
>career attorneys at the U.S.
>Department of Justice," he
>said in an interview.
>
>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trump-gun-owners-jan-6-ri
>oters-tough-crime-justice-alito-displays-empa-rcna151242

He's just like Thomas, he only takes bribes from right wingers for Trump.

He's been on the take since he was appointed for his plush, bloodsucking
government handout of a job.