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Alito

Posted by Sini

"Nonpolitical office" indeed.

No class at all.

At a gala dinner hosted by the American Spectator Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. cracked wise at Vice President-elect Joe Biden's expense, raising the Delaware senator's past brushes with academic dishonesty to the delight of his conservative audience.

Recalling an incident in which an article he submitted to the Spectator was rejected for publication, Alito began by joking that his unpublished piece had detailed how he would vote on the most controversial issues facing the Supreme Court.

Then — in the process of suggesting things had turned out well for him despite this rejection — Alito trained his sights on Barack Obama’s running mate.

"To coin a phrase, in the spirit of the vice president-elect," Alito began, "you don’t always get what you want, but you get what you need."

Alito paused before continuing: "Did somebody say that before?"

The justice’s delivery was clumsy, but to the laughing audience his joke was clear.
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“I understood Alito’s remark as a crack about plagiarism,” one audience member confirmed.

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