SCOTUS For Sale: Samuel Alito Is The Latest Bought And Paid For Conservative Justice

This Supreme Court is in a race to the bottom to see which justice can put the final nail in its legitimacy coffin. It’s Justice Samuel Alito this time.

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This Supreme Court is in a race to the bottom to see which justice can put the final nail in its legitimacy coffin. It’s Justice Samuel Alito this time.

Samuel Alito and his secret gifts from a GOP billionaire

ProPublica dropped yet another U.S. Supreme Court scandal bomb on us, this time it’s Justice Samuel Alito taking undisclosed luxury travel gifts with and from a Republican hedge fund billionaire who had “repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to rule in his favor in high-stakes business disputes.”

In 2008, for example, Alito reportedly traveled with Paul Singer, who “flew Alito to Alaska on a private jet. If the justice chartered the plane himself, th…