Samuel Alito Is Not Here To Save You

We can learn more by observing the behavior of Trump's most predictable enablers – Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito, for instance – while trying to gauge how close we are to a constitutional crisis,” he wrote.

“The standard Trump operating procedure for immigration issues during his first three months in office has been to break the law quickly, then complain about people pointing out the law-breaking, then shrug off the judiciary by claiming to have no power to remedy the injustice.

"Alito knows all that. That's why he tacked onto the end of his dissent these words: ‘Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.’"

Yeah, that’s what he meant.  🙄  But some obligations are more equal than others; to Alito, anyway. So I don’t think he’s too concerned with Trump’s actions sotto voce.