“Justice Samuel Alito, meanwhile, played his traditional role as the Court’s most dyspeptic advocate for whatever position the Republican Party prefers. At one point, Alito even argued that permitting Trump to be prosecuted for attempting to overthrow the 2020 presidential election would “lead us into a cycle that destabilizes ... our democracy,” because future presidents who lose elections would mimic Trump’s criminal behavior in order to remain in office and avoid being prosecuted by their successor”
Alito is a conservative unlike most of the Republican Party.
Future candidates like Biden?
I didn’t follow his logic there. How would a stay in power? By refusing to vacate his office?
Naw, if Alito was just spewing the “party line”, he’d included another 50 billion for Ukraine in his arguments and tell the rest of us peons how the whole world will explode unless we capitulate.
Which isn't what Alito said. Moreover, Trump did not order the military to execute a coup, which is the hypothetical that Alito raised.