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Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. (/ ə ˈ l iː t oʊ / ə-LEE-toh; born April 1, 1950) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated to the high court by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served on it since January 31, 2006.
Alito's nomination was confirmed by a 58–42 vote of the United States Senate on January 31, 2006. Alito was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at the time of his nomination to the Court.
Trump’s election has raised public anticipation that two of the court’s leading conservatives, Justice Clarence Thomas, 76, and Justice Samuel Alito, 74, may step down.
The two oldest members of the Supreme Court who may be due to retire next are conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, age 76, and Samuel Alito, age 74, who were the driving forces behind the court ...
The following is a table of law clerks serving the associate justice holding Supreme Court seat 8 (the Court's eighth associate justice seat by order of creation), and one of two established (along with the later abolished seat 7) on March 3, 1837 by the 24th Congress through the Eighth and Ninth Circuits Act of 1837 (5 Stat. 176). [4]
ProPublica reported in 2023 that Alito did not disclose that a conservative billionaire who eventually had business before the court paid for a private jet flight on which Alito was a passenger.
Justice Scalia's father and both maternal grandparents as well as both of Justice Alito's parents were born in Italy. [30] [31] [32] Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born to a Jewish father who immigrated from Russia at age 13 and a Jewish mother who was born four months after her parents immigrated from Poland. [33]
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