Samuel Alito ‘Joked’ About Black Kids Wearing KKK Robes During Oral Arguments
And interrupted his colleague Elena Kagan to do it.
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On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that’s framed as being about free speech but is actually a Trojan horse for upending civil rights protections. So, naturally, the Supreme Court’s chief troll, Justice Samuel Alito, decided to joke around about the Ku Klux Klan.
The case is 303 Creative v. Elenis, in which a Colorado website designer is arguing that the state’s anti-discrimination law violates her free speech rights. The designer, Lorie Smith, said the state’s rule prevents her from selling wedding websites because she only believes in heterosexual marriages and doesn’t want to serve gay couples. The case is related to 2018’s Masterpiece Cakeshop, and it could not only affect the rights of LGBTQ people, but also open the door for even more legalized discrimination based on race, religion, or disability status.
Early in the hearing, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked a hypothetical question to make a point that a photo studio offering 1950s-style Christmas photos with Santa couldn’t refuse Black customers just because segregation was legal at that time.
Alito later tried to use this as a jumping off point, suggesting that letting businesses refuse certain clients is good, actually, because that allows them not to serve groups like the KKK, seemingly thinking he’d delivered a stunning checkmate to the woke libs.