Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2006
The surprising conservative backlash against Justice Alito: The Republican justice’s new book has convinced many of his political allies that he’s not entirely ...
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Justice Alito says he is ‘not pleased’ with what Trump has been saying about the Supreme Court
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Trump Hints at Lame Duck Supreme Court Retirement Bombshell: The president offered a strange early-morning take on Justice Samuel Alito and his future on the ...
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Alito’s Dobbs defense fails to confront the reality of reversing Roe: In an interview, the justice called the interest in maintaining abortion rights “abstract ...
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Casting Justice Samuel Alito As 'MAGA' Hurts His Feelings. Here's His Record.: The extreme right-wing Supreme Court justice took umbrage at the perception that ...
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Justice Alito Says He Has a Hunch Who Leaked the Dobbs Report: Samuel Alito told Fox News's Shannon Bream that he has a hunch who leaked the controversial Dobbs ...
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice: Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v ...
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Samuel Alito’s Tortured Attempts to Explain Himself : In the midst of his will-he-or-won’t-he retirement tour, the justice is at great pains to make his view of ...
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Justice Samuel Alito recuses from climate case after scrutiny over oil stock holdings
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Like Ginsburg, Alito Is Gambling on Outliving His Critics: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito could retire and let Donald Trump appoint, and a GOP Senate quickly ...
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OpinionJustice Alito doth protest too much: The conservative justice told The Associated Press that being called MAGA is “offensive” to him. His rulings say otherwise.
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Alito says he has hunch who leaked Dobbs decision: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said in an interview that he has an “opinion” on who leaked the draft ...
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As Midterms Near, Justice Alito Says He Considers Each Year Whether to Retire: The justice, the second oldest on the court at 76, told CBS News that he decided ...
nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/politics/justice-alito-retirement-supreme-court.html
Trumpy Justice Sends Pointed Message After President’s SCOTUS Freakout: The president’s favorite right-wing judge claims he doesn’t listen to him.
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Justice Alito says he won’t retire during lame-duck session of Congress: That window probably would be the last chance for President Donald Trump to get a ...
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CBS Mornings : Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito told CBS News' Jan Crawford that he has no regrets about writing the 2022 opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade ... Show more
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said increasingly harsh criticism of the court from political leaders can be "quite damaging" to the institution ... Show more
Live updates: Trump set for Nebraska trip after Ohio rally; Alito, Cornell victim’s attorney to appear on Sunday shows
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The Japan Times Oct 04
New term gives U.S. Supreme Court’s Thomas and Alito more chances to wield power: Thomas and Alito have been Trump’s most reliable votes in cases involving his ...
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Key FactsThomas and Alito may gain more Supreme Court influence
Oct 3, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: reuters.com
- The new nine-month term begins Monday and runs through the end of June.
- Clarence Thomas is 78 and has served since 1991; Samuel Alito is 76 and joined the court in 2006.
- On December 2, the court will consider semiautomatic rifle bans; on December 8, Arizona’s citizenship-proof requirement.
- Legal experts say both could expand their influence; Alito said he is staying for another term.
I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often.— Donald Trump, in remarks about his Supreme Court appointees, as reported by Reuters
Alito Warns About ‘Disturbing’ Physical Threats to Justices, Says He Lost Friends After Dobbs ...
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Alito Recusal in Landmark Climate Case Called 'Bare Minimum' Given Big Oil Tactics
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, which overturned Roe v. Wade ... Show more
Alito Reverses Course, Announces Recusal From Major Corporate Fossil Fuels Case: The Supreme Court associate justice had previously refused to step away from a ...
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Justice Samuel Alito initially appeared set to hear a major climate change case, but that changed just days before oral arguments ... Show more
Alito Says Recusal in Climate Case Is ‘Prudent’ But Not Required: US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said his withdrawal from a high-stakes climate change ...
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The female body as state property: In 1972, abortions were illegal in Minnesota. Sometime that year - | the exact date has been forgotten - | a 21-year-old man ...
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Justices Alito, Thomas Dismiss Impacts Of Trump’s Mail Voting Overhaul Attempt In Dissent
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Sitting Federal Judge Sounds Bombshell Alarm on Trump: A judge who keeps photos of Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito in his chambers had harsh words for the ...
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Joe Scarborough Calls Out ‘Bulls**t Conservative’ Justices After Mail-In Ballot Ruling
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In controversial mail-in ballot ruling, Trump has only two Supreme Court allies: The two most conservative justices on the Supreme Court were loyal allies to ...
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The battle for the US Senate is also about the future of the Supreme Court.: The upper house of Congress decides on judicial appointments, most notably to the ...
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Can anything stop the White House ballroom?: A preservationist group likely has no standing to stop the White House ballroom, the Supreme Court says. So ...
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Supreme Court Justice Alito Keeps Oil And Gas Stocks As He Faces Pressure To Recuse In Upcoming Case
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Alito Made Millions on Fossil Fuels But Won’t Recuse From Exxon Case: The Supreme Court is hearing a case involving the oil companies Suncor Energy and Exxon.
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Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows
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OpinionJustice Samuel Alito: ‘Practical Originalism’ and Its Facile Critics: He explains his interpretive method and defends it against a hostile biographer—and his ...
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OpinionCommentary: How Democrats can repair the broken Supreme Court: Future Democratic majorities in Congress — perhaps starting as soon as January — should make ...
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Earned Up to $2.9M from Fossil Fuel Interests: A review of financial disclosures from the nonprofit advocacy group Court ...
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OpinionSamuel Alito's Anger Problem: The right-wing Supreme Court justice has a well-established pattern of outbursts that has not subsided with his remarkable success ...
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Why Alito is the most frequent Supreme Court justice to recuse: The Supreme Court justices recused a combined 64 times this term when deciding what new cases to ...
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Supreme Court Justices’ Rift Spills Into Public: The most recent term was marked by surprisingly personal disputes between the justices.
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Samuel Alito Cited Fudged Data in His Ruling Gutting Voting Rights Act: Alito cited data provided by the Department of Justice that used faulty methodology.
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Straight Arrow Jul 05
NPR falsely reported a Supreme Court justice was retiring. The internet noticed: NPR retracted an article falsely claiming Justice Alito retired — but not before ...
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Mike Johnson's 'Save America Act' Plan Backfires
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OpinionSamuel Alito, a MAGA-Friendly Justice With a New Conservative Legal Vision: Samuel Alito is fusing establishment conservatism and the Trump movement into a new ...
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The subjective originalism of SCOTUS's conservative majority: The reasoning cited by Justices Alito and Kavanaugh in Dobbs didn't work with birthright ...
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A day after Alito's testy response to Sotomayor's dissent, court says it was a 'misunderstanding'
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Key FactsVerbal Dispute at Supreme Court Stemmed from Misunderstanding
Jun 26, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnn.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnn.com
- The Supreme Court clarified that the verbal exchange between Justices Alito and Sotomayor resulted from a misunderstanding.
- Justice Sotomayor had informed Alito in advance about her intention to read a dissent from the bench.
- Alito was caught off guard, not anticipating a dissent to be read aloud during the session.
- The exchange occurred during a 6-3 ruling affirming a conservative majority’s policy on border asylum claims.
There’s much that I would have added to my bench statement had I known there would be a dissent read.— Justice Samuel Alito; in response to the tense exchange with Justice Sotomayor after she read a dissent from the bench
Rep. Ogles Introduces Bill That Would Prevent Pregnant Migrants From Entering U.S.
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Watchdog Warns of Trump Plot to Push Alito, Thomas Off Supreme Court While GOP Still Controls Senate | Common Dreams
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Samuel Alito Can Only Identify Bigotry When It Affects Him: The conservative justice knows what "bigoted code language" looks like when it's about ...
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The Supreme Court Backs Trump’s Gutter Racism: Samuel Alito led the majority on a despicable, precedent-shredding misadventure so that they could whitewash the ...
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Fox’s Jonathan Turley Argues Supreme Court Just Handed Down a ‘Significant Loss for Republican ...
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Chatrie Ruling: Alito Rips Supreme Court's ‘Irresponsible Escapade’ on Surveillance
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OpinionThe sad inevitability of Justice Alito's birthright citizenship dissent: During his 2005 confirmation hearings, Alito praised his father as an 'extraordinary man ...
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OpinionThomas’s Constitutional Firepower: The restoration of the Second Amendment began with a lone concurrence in 1997.
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Paid articlePaywall Supreme Court disagreements in public view as major rulings loom: Tensions are evident in a rare display among the Supreme Court justices at the end of the term ...
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Sam Alito Wrote One of the Cruelest Opinions in Recent Memory: On Thursday, the Supreme Court blessed the Trump administration’s efforts to kick hundreds of ...
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The Court That Will Believe Absolutely Anything Is ‘Race-Neutral’: The majority gives Trump yet more license to discriminate.
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Supreme Court Explains Alito, Sotomayor 'Misunderstanding' in Rare Statement: The Supreme Court issued a rare public statement addressing a spat between two ...
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Angry Spat between Justices Alito And Sotomayor Was Result of a ‘Misunderstanding,’ CNN Reports
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Key FactsSupreme Court Ends TPS Protection for Over One Million
Jun 26, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnn.com
- The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Department of Homeland Security has sole authority to extend or terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
- As a result, hundreds of thousands of TPS holders, including 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, will lose legal residency and work protections in the US.
- This decision will significantly impact communities, industries, and the US economy due to the loss of essential labor from TPS beneficiaries.
- Legal challenges against the termination of TPS protections are likely to be dismissed, increasing the risk of deportations for affected immigrants.
Many, many people are going to die violent, needless deaths. That’s the bottom line. That’s the thing that’s kept me up nights for the past eight months.— Geoffrey Pipoly, attorney who represented Haitian TPS holders in the Supreme Court case
Supreme Court Gives Trump Two Big Wins on Immigration: The Supreme Court has given Trump two big wins on immigration. The conservative majority just made it ...
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Key FactsSupreme Court Enables Return of Border Asylum Limits
Jun 25, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- The Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s injunction that halted a policy restricting the number of asylum seekers processed daily at the southern border.
- Originally implemented under Obama and expanded by Trump, the policy limited how many migrants could apply for asylum each day.
- Advocates argue this caused unsafe conditions for migrants, while supporters claim it was essential for managing increased border crossings.
- The decision affirmed that migrants are not officially ‘arrived’ until physically entering the U.S., affecting their right to immediate asylum processing.
regrettably and tragically extinguishes the light of the torch of the Statue of Liberty.— Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in dissent to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the metering policy for asylum seekers at the border
Alito, Kavanaugh and Thomas Join 2 Liberals in Unusual Supreme Court Split: The Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 ruling that defied ideologicial divides on ...
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Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii restrictions on carrying guns on private property
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Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii’s private property gun restrictions : The Supreme Court on Thursday invalidated Hawaii’s gun restrictions on private property ...
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Justice Alito Splits With Supreme Court Over Social Media Star’s Do-Over: Supreme Court sends the case of Ashley Grayson, who was convicted in a murder-for-hire ...
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Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas Issue Dissent in Supreme Court Decision Linked to Racial Test
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Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito Issue Supreme Court Dissent in Alabama Murder Case: Justices Alito and Thomas dissented after SCOTUS refused to review an Alabama ...
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Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito Sit Out Supreme Court Decisions: The recusals highlight a tension between judicial ethics practices and broader concerns about ...
newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-samuel-alito-sit-out-supreme-court-decisions-12044858
The next victim of the Supreme Court’s voting rights decision will be workers: The Trump administration wants to extend Justice Sam Alito’s approach to race to ...
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Trump Administration Defends Samuel Alito’s Son as Secretive Role Revealed: The Treasury Department told Newsweek that Samuel Alito’s son did not work on Supreme ...
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John Roberts Is Either Dumb or Racially Obtuse. And He’s Not Dumb.: After the Supreme Court struck down school integration, guess what happened in the schools? ...
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During a White House Press briefing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s son works at the ... Show more
Supreme Court Justice’s Son Has Been Working in the Trump Administration: ‘A Closely Guarded S ...
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Samuel Alito Cited Fudged Data in His Ruling Gutting Voting Rights Act: Alito cited data provided by the Department of Justice that used faulty methodology.
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Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Issue Dissent as Supreme Court Hands California Legal Win
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Samuel Alito Cited Fudged Data in His Ruling Gutting Voting Rights Act: Alito cited data provided by the Department of Justice that used faulty methodology.
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Trump May Not Have the Votes to Replace Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito: President Donald Trump's revenge tour against GOP senators may have cost him Supreme Court ...
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Oral arguments are taking forever. Supreme Court justices have had enough: Like all good lawyers, Supreme Court justices can argue over anything — including ...
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