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World Fucking Champions

I've always said The Scalia is my favorite Supreme. I may have to scratch that, now that I know that Alito is a big ol' Phillies fan:

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. has turned his desk at the Court into a mini-shrine to the Philadelphia Phillies.

There's a Phillies towel, the front page of Thursday's Philadelphia Inquirer with a headline proclaiming "CHAMPS!" and a baseball hat marking the team's playoff win. The World Series hat, he says, "is on the way."

Alito, a Phillies fan since he was 4 or 5 years old, granted a rare in-chambers interview Friday to convey his enthusiasm about the World Series victory after a 28-year drought. "Like millions of other fans, I feel like we did it," Alito said.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).