Samuel Alitowas appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006. He is the 110th justice to serve on the high court since it was established in 1789.Justice Alitohas served in both the judicial and executive branches of government. He is married and has two children. ...
Justice Samuel Alito pushed back Thursday against criticism, including some from colleagues, that recent Supreme Court actions in major cases have been done hastily and in the shadows. "A dangerous cabal" improperly deciding important matters? Hardly, he said. Alito, in remarks at the University o...
In acopy of the document made available by Bloomberg, Justice Samuel Alito dissents from the decision to dismiss the case, calling the court’s “about-face” “baffling.” In an opinion joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and in part by Justice Neil Gorsuch, Alito accuses his co...
Justice Samuel Alito wrote a sharp dissent, joined by two other conservatives, Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Neil Gorsuch. Alito suggested the dispute was "one of the most important free speech cases to reach this court in years," saying the government actions were...
There were no noted dissents in thebrief, unsigned orderfrom the Supreme Court declining their request to block New York officials from enforcing the gun law. Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, said in aseparate statementthat the New York law "presents novel and serious qu...
In a written dissent, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas said they would have heard the case regardless. “The challenged policy and associated equity training specifically encourage school personnel to keep parents in the dark about the ‘identities’ of their children, especially if the scho...
Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented. “For months, high-ranking government officials placed unrelenting pressure on Facebook to suppress Americans’ free speech. Because the court unjustifiably refuses to address this serious threat to the First...
The majority opinion by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. sought to be more reassuring to those who see a judicialassaultcoming on same-sex marriage and contraception. He declared that a ruling that the 14th Amendment — which forbids the government to take away people’s freedom unfairly — does ...
The court found that Texas and Louisiana, the two states that challenged the administration's guidelines, lacked standing to bring the suit, formally known as United States v. Texas. Therulingwas 8-1, with only Justice Samuel Alito dissenting. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion for the ...
"In the future, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell," he wrote. All the other justices, however, disagreed. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito noted, "The Court emphasizes that this decision concerns...