Justice Samuel 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.

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.

a “zero tolerance” policy against eating in a Metro station.) I concluded that although Roberts was “a very bright, if not brilliant jurist and an extremely thoughtful lawyer,” his “values are way to the right of mainstream America” and it was up to the Judiciary Committee “to decide whether you want to put somebody in as Chief Justice who’s that far to the right.” The intellectual leader of today’s majority (if “intellectual” is the appropriate adjective) is Samuel Alito, perhaps the most conceptually rigid and cognitively dishonest justice since Chief Justice Roger Taney, who found in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case in 1857 that Congress