As Justice Samuel Alito’s ability to dominate the U.S. Supreme Court increases, his heartlessness and hypocrisy seem to grow commensurately. That is a reasonable conclusion to draw following his recent speech at the Religious Liberty Summit in Rome, where he spoke about the symbiotic relationship between religious liberty and other fundamental rights, without any self-awareness of the growing list of liberties he is willing to deny others.

The University of Notre Dame Law School described conference attendees as the world’s leading defenders of religious freedom. In a presentation focusing on the importance of protecting religious liberty, the justice revealed how his views on religion dominate his world view. That position is of particular relevance as he imposes that view on the entire country through his jurisprudence.