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Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. ( ə-LEE-toh; born April 1, 1950) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served since January 31, 2006. He is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court—after Antonin Scalia—and the eleventh Catholic. Raised in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, and educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School. After graduating, Alito served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) before joining the Supreme Court. He is the 110th justice. Alito was considered "one of the most conservative justices on the Court". He has described himself as a "practical originalist". Alito's majority opinions in landmark cases include McDonald v. Chicago, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Murphy v. NCAA, Janus v. AFSCME, and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
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The numerical value of alito in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
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Alito’s citation is both cynical and misleading, implying that Justice Ginsburg disapproved of the Roe holding.
Justice Alito is ignoring the fact that in addition to striking down New York's law Supreme Court is announcing a new standard for Second Amendment cases unlike anything Supreme Court has ever applied before.
When Thomas took the bench, Justice Scalia felt like he was the first line of reinforcement after years of fighting alone in the trenches to defend the original understanding of the Constitution, neither Justice Samuel Alito, nor Chief Justice John Roberts have the same level of commitment to the theory.
What happened with Justice Alito and Justice Roberts is that they had meetings, they had hearings, and they had votes, and then they were confirmed to the Supreme Court, judge Garland ... should be afforded that same constitutional set of responsibilities.
Justice Alito asks why I have begun my opinion by reviewing some of the dangers and challenges posed by gun violence.
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