But think about what it says about both where Trump has delivered this country, and about Alito’s assumptions about democracy.
On the former point: Have we now reached a place where challenges to election results are going to be the norm?
Where an opposition party can be counted on to find some legal technicality on which to prosecute a former president, rather than leaving him or her in peace as we have throughout our history?.
This is another twisting of reality.
Trump, his defenders would protest, is the one former president who has not been left in peace.
As The New Yorker reported in a 2022 profile, Alito was asked in 2014 to name a character trait that hadn’t served him well.
Indeed, Alito now seems to be saying whatever he wants in public, often with a snide pugnaciousness that suggests his past decorum was suppressing considerable resentment. »