Month: July 2023

Justice Alito’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Month

Juvenal said that it is very difficult not to write satire. As its 2022 term came to a close, the United States Supreme Court proved his point. Take Justice Samuel Alito. Arrogant has its etymological roots in the Latin rogare: to ask. It shares that root withinterrogate (to question), prerogative (which, literally, means “ask first”) and rogation (hence the special period of petitionary prayer known as Rogation Days.) Arrogant, then, … Read More Justice Alito’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Month