In other news, this was still a particularly terrible SCOTUS session

Charles Pierce:

As we learned this week, in which a series of Court decisions made gay people who want to get married happy, and virtually everyone else—especially employees and minorities who may want to vote—miserable, the real walking id of the Court’s preposterously Janus-faced conservative faction is Justice Samuel Alito, who turns out to be not only a reliable reactionary voice on almost every issue, but a colossal dick besides.

Everyone there is a "political actor"

We might wish it to be otherwise but it's just a plain fact. All this pretense of decorum doesn't sit well with me. I'd rather have all the assholes out there where I can see them.