Dahlia Lithwick: I think the merits can get lost when we talk about the flags. But there is a substantive problem that we’re starting to pick up on, and that is Justice Alito, in recent weeks, making very real and serious errors in his opinions. They’re actually prompting corrections from sources that he cites, who say, “No, my work reflects the opposite of what you’re claiming.”
“This dovetails with something we’ve talked about so much over the years, which is that the Supreme Court does not have an error-correction mechanism.
Once you put something false into an opinion, it becomes doctrine, and Alito is very good at this. Don’t forget, it was just last week that Justice Kagan had to tell Alito that he was misreading her own majority opinion. And there’s no corrective. It’s just choose-your-own-ending. “
@BohemianPeasant well that's not true, and we can see that even in recent opinions that have corrected the errors in previous opinions.
And that's not even getting into the error correction that happens through lower courts.
