Ian Millhiser, a senior editor at Vox, wrote a 'prewritten obituary' for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito because he wanted to think about what would happen if he died.
In a now-deleted tweet from Tuesday morning, Millhiser said that he had updated some of his 'prewritten obituaries' to start off the 'slow month' of August and shared his thoughts on the death of Justice Samuel Alito.
“Justice Samuel Alito, who died on XXXX, was not devoid of any positive traits. He was a skilled attorney and a highly effective advocate for conservative causes,” noted Millhiser in his fake obituary.
“Had he spent his career as a litigator, he would almost certainly be remembered as one of the Republican Party’s leading Supreme Court practitioners,” he continued.
In the end of his obituary, Millhiser said that Alito was a radical, partisan judge who followed the Republican Party.
“The problem is that Justice Alito was, indeed, one of the Republican Party’s leading Supreme Court advocates — but he embraced this role while he was a sitting justice,” concluded Millhiser.
Kudos to @derekahunter and @TwitchyTeam for highlighting Ian Millhiser’s truly bizarre and deranged tweet about Justice Alito’s future obituary… pic.twitter.com/3oC8lLk7PT
— Rebecca Downs (@RebeccaRoseGold) August 3, 2022
Millhiser's fantasy about Alito's death comes after a 26-year-old man named Nicholas John Roske tried to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh and said he wanted to change history.
“I could get at least one, which would change the votes for decades to come, and I am shooting for 3 all of the major decisions for the past 10 years have been along party lines so if there are more liberal than conservative judges, they will have the power,” Roske said on a Reddit forum.
Millhiser's death notice also comes after a summer of violence and vandalism at pro-life centers across the country. This is because the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Alex Marlow, the editor-in-chief of Breitbart, wrote a series called "Summer of Rage." In it, he talked about how one of the violent groups, Ruth Sent Us, put the addresses of the conservative Supreme Court Justices online for everyone to see.
“Ruth Sent Us garnered national attention after publishing the supposed location of the homes (via a Google map) of the six centrist and originalist Supreme Court justices to their website,” noted Marlow. “This led to (illegal) protests targeting justices at their homes. In June, a man was arrested outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home and charged with attempted murder.”
“Despite their role in the unprecedented protests in Supreme Court justices’ neighborhoods, Ruth Sent Us downplayed the arrest, saying it wasn’t a ‘serious’ assassination attempt,” Marlow continued. “The group’s antics have, however, attracted the attention of TikTok, which briefly banned the group in May (but has since reinstated it) and Twitter, where the group’s account is currently suspended, presumably due to the threats and harassment.”
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