Making it up as they go along

Dahlia Lithwicke explains why having Sam Alito on the Supreme Court would be a really bad idea.

And, also at Slate, Michael Kinsley wonders why we should take at face value Alito's claims that he was just angling for a job promotion when he wrote in 1985 that Roe should be overturned, when he's making those claims, 20 years later, while angling for yet another job promotion.