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Pamela Carlin, the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery professor of Public Interest Law and a founder and co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law school, has argued 10 cases before the Supreme Court. And during that time, she\u2019s come to an assessment about Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito: the man is a partisan hack \u2014 and he makes no bones about it.<\/p>\n

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They don\u2019t care if they make the court \u201clook nakedly, openly political,\u201d said Carlin speaking on Slate\u2019s Amicus podcast with host Dalia Lithwick.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have just decided they have the power right now to undo the second Reconstruction, and they\u2019re happy to do that,\u201d said Carlin. \u201cAnd they don\u2019t care that it\u2019s obvious that that aligns with a particular wing of the Republican Party \u2026 When you now have a Republican Party, especially in the south, that has no interest whatsoever in attracting Black votes. \u2026 [I]t\u2019s a party that is not interested in being a multiracial, multiethnic party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlin took particular issue with the court\u2019s recent move to \u201ceviscerate the Voting Rights act of 1965,\u201d which is a statute that President Johnson called the \u201cmost monumental act in the history of American freedom\u201d when he signed it and which Carlin said President Ronald Reagan referred to as \u201ca crown jewel\u201d when he signed the reauthorization of the act in 1982. <\/p>\n

Consider the court\u2019s recent 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, wherein the court struck down a Louisiana congressional map drawn to include a second majority-Black district. The ruling found that intentionally creating districts to satisfy Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) constitutes an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.<\/p>\n

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But that\u2019s the character of someone like Alito, said Carlin.<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]hen Justice Alito applied for a job in the Reagan Justice Department, he said that the thing that inspired him to go to law school and to care about constitutional law was his dislike of \u2026 the decision to apply one person, one vote to legislative elections and say, \u2018you can\u2019t have one district that has 100,000 people in it and another district that has 700,000 people in it,\u2019 the way some states did prior to one person, one vote,\u201d said Carlin. \u201cSo this is a guy who from very outset of his career has disliked the Supreme Court\u2019s democracy protecting decisions and has decided to do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And they did. With abandonment of precedent, the Roberts court with Alito in lead has \u201ccompletely reversed\u201d what the Supreme Court did 40 years ago, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he has said is, essentially, as long as the Republican Party is willing to screw over white Democrats, it\u2019s free to screw over Black people as well, because Black people vote overwhelmingly in the south, in particular for candidates who are Democrats,\u201d said Carlin, adding that Alito has warped the court to thoroughly that now it is proclaiming \u201cnot only aren\u2019t we gonna protect you, but we\u2019re not gonna let Congress protect you either\u201d with response laws.<\/p>\n

\u201c[What] Justice Thomas and Justice Alito and the chief learned is you\u2019ve got the power now, but you may not have the power five or ten years from now. You\u2019ve got justices, Justice Thomas and Justice Alito, in particular, who really dislike the second Reconstruction,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, they really, really dislike it. And they have the power to get rid of something they really, really dislike. Why not take it? Especially if your view of American institutions is as cynical as theirs seems to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

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