Alito for Law Students: The Drinking Game

I’ve had the Alito hearings on NPR playing on my computer all day at work. Interesting at times, other times it fades into the background. But I have noticed a bit of a theme. So for all the legal groupies out there, I present the Alito Confirmation Hearing Drinking Game. It’s pretty simple, but guaranteed to get you drunk as a senator skunk:

• Every time a Senator (R) asks an essentially rhetorical question, like, “Judge Alito, you don’t believe that the executive has the raw, unchecked god-like power to command all his subjects to do his evil bidding, now do you?” Take a shot.
• Every time a Senator (D) says “Vanguard,” take a shot.
• Every time a Senator (R) uses more than 10 minutes at a stretch describing the amazing qualifications of the demigod of jurisprudence, take a shot.
• Every time a Senator (D) asks how Judge Alito feels about the supreme authority of the executive, take a shot.

And finally, every time Judge Alito references the “Twilight Zone created by Justice Jackson” chug whiskey until you are in the twilight zone created by Justice Jackson.