Justice Alito Quotes

In his 2010 State of the Union address, Obama made headlines by denouncing the Court’s decision, saying that it “reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign corporations—to spend without limit in our elections.” In response, the associate Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito Jr., who attended the address, was seen shaking his head and mouthing the words “not true.

asked by Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times about the fact that in that same term, the number of female clerks fell to single digits for the first time in more than a decade. Only seven women would be among the thirty-seven clerks, and two of them were working for RBG. Why not ask a justice who had hired no women? suggested RBG. That would be Alito, Souter, Scalia, and Thomas.

the Supreme Court in McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) added: “The right to keep and bear arms was considered no less fundamental by those who drafted and ratified the Bill of Rights.” For that proposition, Justice Samuel Alito, author of the opinion, referred the reader to five chapters of this book.

The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied,

the same week as the Taliban ruling in Afghanistan—we in the United States got the draft of Justice Alito’s opinion to roll back in brutal ways recently gained rights in the United States with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It could be that the Taliban action and Alito’s draft opinion occurred in the same week only by coincidence. It could be, but we may doubt it. The two matters are a part of a vigorous, worldwide reassertion of patriarchy that occurs in many places under authoritarian regimes. I take it that Alito’s opinion belongs to that worldwide enterprise. It flies under the compelling banner of “pro-life,” but the moment should be recognized for what it is, not at all “pro-life,” but anti-abortion and anti-woman.

Justice Alito has decreed that the only ones with assured constitutional rights are plantation owners and other property-owning white males. But our Holy Book asserts otherwise and denies any biblical affirmation to such subordination and repression of women.