Joy Reid Calls Alito ‘A Fox Host on the Court’ and Predicts SCOTUS Will Overturn Brown v. Board of Education 

MSNBC’s Joy Reid derided U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito as someone who is more like a right-wing cable news host than a judge.

Alito has been embroiled in controversies over the past year. Last June, ProPublica reported that billionaire Paul Singer took Alito on a fishing trip to Alaska and later had business before the court in cases in which Alito did not recuse himself. The justice did not disclose the trip, which is considered a gift and is supposed to be reported, according to federal law. Last month, the New York Times reported that three days before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, an upside-down American flag was flying at Alito’s house. He said that the flying of that flag, and another that had been brandished by Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, were the handiwork of his wife Martha-Ann Alito.

Justice Alito has dismissed concerns that he is ethically compromised.

“He doesn’t care who knows that he wants to make the country into a Christian nationalist, you know, ethnostate or whatever it is he thinks he would create under this Handmaid’s Tale vision,” Reid said on Monday’s edition of The ReidOut. “He doesn’t care if people know that he takes lavish vacations and the right doesn’t care.”

She went on to say, “We know Alito is essentially a Fox host on the court” before predicting he and other conservative justices will ultimately overturn Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision in which the court ruled racial segregation unconstitutional.

“Just in reading through the litany of things that Alito has said in the past, he’s criticized the Warren court,” Reid said, “that’s the court that gave us all of the civil rights and women, people of color, immigrants, everything, the disabled, all of that came in the 20th century. You’ve now had Clarence Thomas question whether Brown v. Board went too far. This just tells me they’re gonna take a case to overturn Brown v. Board.”

MSNBC legal analyst Melissa Murray pushed back on Reid’s prediction.

“I don’t know if the court is likely to take a case that would overrule Brown v. Board of Education or even Obergefell v. Hodges – the case that granted gay marriage – but that doesn’t mean this court can’t incrementally expand the Overton Window of what is possible and what is not possible in the short time that it has here,” Murray stated. “And so, I think we’re seeing that already. This court is moving steadily to the right, and even when it punts something on jurisdiction, it’s still doing a lot of work to push this court in a rightward direction and push this country in a rightward direction.”

Watch above via MSNBC.