Jun 25 2013

Salon: Justice Alito mocks female Justices on the bench

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is being widely criticized for his behavior on Monday while Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg read the dissenting opinion on an employment harassment case; the associated Justice is widely reported to have rolled his eyes and shook his head “no” while Ginsburg — the second woman to serve on the high court and possessing more than a decade of experience on the bench — noted that the majority ruling on Vance v. Ball State University would leave women vulnerable to workplace harassment without legal recourse.

Garrett Epps at the Atlantic noted Alito’s judicial rudeness on Monday, and Dana Milbank from the Washington Post published a laundry list of the Justice’s high school antics in a Tuesday editorial.

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