nominated Samuel Alito for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Alito's nomination was...

Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. (/əˈliːtoʊ/ ə-LEE-toh; born April 1, 1950) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the...

nominated Samuel Alito four days later. On July 1, 2005, Sandra Day O'Connor announced her plan to retire as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, effective...

withdrew her nomination on October 27 after facing significant opposition. On October 31, Bush nominated another federal appellate judge, Samuel Alito, as his...

The nomination and confirmation of justices to the Supreme Court of the United States involves several steps, the framework for which is set forth in the...

entered in the Senate's record. There have been 37 unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States. Of these, 11 nominees were rejected in...

the confirmation of the more conservative Justice Samuel Alito. The ideological balance of the court shifted further to the right in the following years...

the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed Lewis F. Powell Jr., who had earlier announced his retirement. At the time of his nomination, Bork...

conservative than justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, but less conservative than Justice Clarence Thomas, if placed on the Supreme Court. Also, a Washington...

2016, and Justice Samuel Alito, who has served since 2006, are the first justices of Italian descent to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Justice Scalia's...

justices to the Supreme Court. Nominations to the Supreme Court are considered to be official when the Senate receives a signed nomination letter from the...

justices who might be replaced centered on Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.. Should both Thomas and Alito retire and their successors be appointed by...

associate justices on the Supreme Court. The justices, ordered by seniority, are: Clarence Thomas, since October 23, 1991 Samuel Alito, since January 31, 2006...

committee's vote to approve a Supreme Court nominee split precisely along party lines was in 2006 on the Samuel Alito nomination. Gorsuch needed to win a simple...

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869...

The Supreme Court of the United States is the country's highest federal court. The Court has ultimate—and largely discretionary—appellate jurisdiction...

"U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on...

retirement left Samuel Alito as the lone remaining military veteran on the U.S. Supreme Court. In the wake of the impending Supreme Court vacancy, Democratic...

2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described...

opposition to Samuel Alito, Obama further evaluated the qualities he found important in a Supreme Court justice: I have no doubt that Judge Alito has the training...

Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the nomination of her colleague Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. She took senior status in June 2011, and...

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to replace retiring Justice David Souter. Sotomayor's nomination was submitted to the United...

Clarence Thomas in his Supreme Court confirmation hearings and led campaigns to support the nominations of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett...

June 4, 2019. "On the Nomination PN1059: Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of New Jersey, to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States"....

before the Supreme Court were held in December 2021. In May 2022, Politico published a leaked draft majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito; the leaked...

Antonin Scalia David Souter Yale Law School – 11 alumni, 9 graduates Samuel Alito Henry Billings Brown – also studied law at Harvard, did not receive law...

The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal...

Associate Justice Samuel Alito, jointed by three other justices, wrote a dissenting opinion. In United States v. Alvarez (2012), the Court struck down the...

majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, which had been circulated among the court in February 2022. Alito's draft wrote, "We hold that Roe and...

the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is the highest court of the federal judiciary of the United States...