"He doesn't link to anything - why bring receipts when calling out a supposedly vast media conspiracy? - but he's presumably responding to Joan Biskupic's December CNN article describing Alito as an "unhappy" winner. Which was itself a continuation of a 2022 Slate piece by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern wondering why he's perpetually furious about everything. So, despite failing to show his work, Aguiñaga's not wrong about the general perception."
"My brother in Christ, what exactly do you think YOU'RE doing? A puff piece in Fox News hinting at a liberal media smear campaign? I will guarantee that drives more numbers than a long form CNN post the week between Christmas and New Year's. Even if it doesn't, it chases the only like and click it seeks from its audience of one."
A public defense of Justice Samuel Alito omits source links and challenges portrayals of Alito as "unhappy," "aggrieved," and "wronged." The defense cites mundane personal details — eating Campbell's soup and not making clerks work weekends — as rebuttal to perceptions of perpetual fury. The defender serves as Louisiana Solicitor General and currently has a case before the Supreme Court seeking changes that would make it harder for Black voters to elect their chosen representatives. The conservative majority appears poised to weaken the Voting Rights Act. Public praise from a litigant with matters pending before a justice creates a damaging appearance-of-bias and ethical concern. Critics note partisan media tactics and hypocrisy about seeking clicks and audience validation.
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