Alito Wants a Brawl and Looks Likely to Get One

For decades, activists across the political spectrum have believed that Supreme Court justices are pretenders — ideologues and partisan hacks who try to disguise personal agendas behind black robes.

Justice Samuel Alito’s startling draft opinion revoking a constitutional right to abortion, joined by four colleagues to form a provisional narrow majority, puts this old critique in a somewhat new light: Ideological aims and partisan ones are at least partly in tension.

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