Sammy Ale-ito, Opus Dei trader
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Our Big Beautiful Supreme Court Justices are at it again, folks, wherein “it” is ethically dubious conduct for personal gain. Last year, we learned all about Hizzoner Clarence Thomas’s taste in six-figure RVs and dictator-revering billionaires, and the late, not-great Antonin Scalia’s lavish Alaskan salmon-fishing expeditions on Leonard “The Judgemaker” Leo’s tab. ProPublica’s reporting showed Justice Samuel Alito was also a major beneficiary of that fishy largesse, but don’t get it twisted, he’s fully capable of creating his own brazen conflicts of interest in pursuit of that sweet extra-judicial cheddar, thank you very much.
To wit: earlier this week,
at broke the news that Opus Dei’s strongest soldier sold off between $1,000 and $15,000 worth of Anheuser-Busch InBev stock last August, less than one day after the right-wing outrage account Libs of TikTok amplified the already considerable transphobic backlash to its millions of social media followers. The very same day, federal disclosure documents show Alito also purchased stock worth within that dollar range in Molson Coors, ABI’s longtime rival. It’s bad news for the razor-thin reed of legitimacy from which dangles the reputation of the highest court in the land, but as luck would have it, it’s also probably bad news for Alito’s own portfolio. We love a silver lining, don’t we folks?! Let’s get into it.