Justice Alito's op-ed is a confession of corruption

On Tuesday afternoon, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was gifted op-ed space in The Wall Street Journal, in which he attempted to make a preemptive strike on a ProPublica article reporting on evidence of his accepting gifts from someone with business before the court. Even though the ProPublica article had not appeared at the time the op-ed ran, Alito was shockingly accurate about what it would say.

But then, it’s always easy to predict the evidence of guilt when you’re the one who is guilty. In fact, it’s easy to read Alito’s op-ed for what it really is: a confession.

Alito took a huge gift from someone who has had business before the court not once, but at least 10 times. And all Alito can provide as justification is that he really didn’t remember a once-in-a-lifetime trip with a six-figure price tag, and didn’t manage to put together that the hedge fund he was ruling on was connected to the person who gave him that trip. Who was a hedge fund manager.

In other words, ignorance is his only excuse. According to Alito, that’s just fine.