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Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (pronounced /əˈliːtoʊ/; born April 1,
1950) is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He Samuel Alito
was nominated by President George W. Bush and has served
on the court since January 31, 2006.[1]

Raised in Hamilton Township, New Jersey and educated at
Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito served as
U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and a judge on
the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit prior
to joining the Supreme Court. He is the 110th justice, the
second Italian American and the eleventh Roman Catholic to
serve on the court. Alito has been described by the Cato
Institute as a conservative jurist with a libertarian streak.[2]

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme
Court
1 Early life and education
2 Early legal career Incumbent
3 Court of Appeals judge Assumed office
3.1 Nomination and confirmation January 31, 2006
3.2 Notable opinions
4 Other activities Nominated by George W. Bush
5 Nomination to U.S. Supreme Court and Preceded by Sandra Day O'Connor
confirmation hearings Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for
6 U.S. Supreme Court career
the Third Circuit
7 Related documents
8 See also In office
9 References April 30, 1990 – January 31, 2006
10 Further sources Nominated by George H. W. Bush
11 External links
Preceded by John Gibbons
Succeeded by Joseph Greenaway
United States Attorney for the District of New
Jersey
Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Italian American In office
parents: Italian immigrant Samuel A. Alito, Sr., and the former December 28, 1987 – April 30, 1990
Rose Fradusco.[3][4] Alito's father, now deceased, was a high Nominated by Ronald Reagan
school teacher and then became the first Director of the New Thomas Grenlish
Preceded by
Jersey Office of Legislative Services, a position he held from
1952 to 1984. Alito's mother is a retired schoolteacher. Succeeded by Michael Chertoff
Personal details
Alito grew up in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, a suburb of
Trenton.[5] He attended Steinert High School in Hamilton

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Township[6] and graduated from Princeton University's
Born April 1, 1950
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972 before attending Yale Law Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
School, where he served as editor on the Yale Law Journal Spouse(s) Martha Bomgardner
and earned a Juris Doctor in 1975. Alma mater Princeton University
Yale Law School
At Princeton, Alito led a student conference in 1971 called
"The Boundaries of Privacy in American Society" which, Religion Roman Catholicism
among other things, supported curbs on domestic intelligence Military service
gathering, called for the decriminalization of sodomy, and
Service/branch United States Army
urged for an end to discrimination against gays in hiring by
Years of service 1972–1980
employers.[7]
Rank Captain
While a sophomore at Princeton, Alito received the low Unit Army Reserve
lottery number 32, in a Selective Service drawing on
Signal Corps
December 1, 1969.[8] In 1970, he became a member of the
school's Army ROTC program, attending a six-week basic
training camp that year at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in lieu of having been in ROTC during his first two years in
college. Alito was a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which was formed in October 1972 at least
in part to oppose Princeton's decisions regarding affirmative action. Apart from Alito's written 1985 statement of
membership of CAP on a job application, which Alito says was truthful, there is no other documentation of
Alito's involvement with or contributions in the group. Alito has cited the banning and subsequent treatment of
ROTC by the university as his reason for belonging to CAP.

During his senior year at Princeton, Alito moved out of New Jersey for the first time to study in Italy, where he
wrote his thesis on the Italian legal system.[9] Graduating in 1972, Alito left a sign of his lofty aspirations in his
yearbook, which said that he hoped to "eventually warm a seat on the Supreme Court."[10]

He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps after his graduation and assigned to
the United States Army Reserve. Following his graduation from Yale Law School in 1975, he served on active
duty from September to December 1975, while attending the Officer Basic Course for Signal Corps officers at
Fort Gordon, Georgia. The remainder of his time in the Army was served in the inactive Reserves. He had the
rank of Captain when he received an Honorable Discharge in 1980.[8]

After graduating from Yale Law School in 1975, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal,[11] Alito
clerked for Third Circuit appeals judge Leonard I. Garth in Newark, New Jersey in 1976 and 1977.[9] He
interviewed with Supreme Court Justice Byron White for a clerkship but was not hired.[12] Between 1977 and
1981 Alito was Assistant United States Attorney, District of New Jersey. While serving as an Assistant U.S.
Attorney for New Jersey, he prosecuted many cases that involved drug trafficking and organized crime.[13]

From 1981 to 1985 Alito was Assistant to Solicitor General Rex E. Lee. Alito argued 12 cases before the
Supreme Court for the federal government during his tenure as assistant to the Solicitor General. From 1985 to
1987 Alito was Deputy Assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese. In his 1985 application for Deputy Assistant
to the Attorney General, Alito espoused conservative views, naming William F. Buckley, Jr., the National
Review, Alexander Bickel, and Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign as major influences. He also
expressed concern about Warren Court decisions in the areas of criminal procedure, the Establishment Clause,

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and reapportionment.[14] From 1987 to 1990 Alito was United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

Nomination and confirmation

Alito was nominated by President George H. W. Bush on February 20, 1990 to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit, to a seat vacated by John Joseph Gibbons. Alito was rated by the American Bar
Association as "Well Qualified" at the time of his nomination. He was confirmed by unanimous consent in the
Senate on April 27, 1990,[15] and received his commission three days later. As a Third Circuit judge, his
chambers were in Newark, New Jersey.[9]

Notable opinions
Federalism

A dissenting opinion in United States v. Rybar, 103 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 1996), arguing that a U.S. law
banning private citizens from owning submachine guns was similar to one struck down by the Supreme
Court in United States v. Lopez and thus outside the authority of Congress under the Commerce
Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
A majority opinion in Chittister v. Department of Community & Economic Development, 226 F.3d
223 (3d Cir. 2000). This case concerned an employee's claim of wrongful termination under the Family
and Medical Leave Act against the state of Pennsylvania. States are free to maintain sovereign
immunity under the U.S. Constitution. Since Pennsylvania had maintained its immunity to such suits,
Alito affirmed the lower court's dismissal of the employee’s claims.

First Amendment

A majority opinion in Saxe v. State College Area School District, 240 F.3d 200 (3d Cir. 2001), holding
that a public school district's anti-harassment policy was unconstitutionally overbroad and therefore
violated First Amendment guarantees of free speech.
A majority opinion in ACLU v. Schundler, 168 F.3d 92 (3d Cir. 1999), holding that a government-
sponsored holiday display consisting solely of religious symbols was impermissible, but that a mixed
display including both secular and religious symbols was permissible if balanced in a generally secular
context.
A dissenting opinion in C. H. v. Oliva et al. (3d Cir. 2000), arguing that the removal and subsequent
replacement in "a less conspicuous spot" of a kindergartener's religious themed poster was, at least
potentially, a violation of his right to free expression.
A dissenting opinion in Snyder v. Phelps (2011) arguing that protesting at funerals was infringing on
the rights of the grieving.

Fourth and Eighth Amendments

A dissenting opinion in Doe v. Groody, arguing that qualified immunity should have protected police
officers from a finding of having violated constitutional rights when they strip-searched a mother and
her ten-year-old daughter while carrying out a search warrant that authorized the search of a
residence.
A unanimous opinion in Chadwick v. Janecka (3d Cir. 2002), holding that there was "no federal
constitutional bar" to the "indefinite confinement" of a man imprisoned for civil contempt because he
claimed he could not pay his $2.5 million debt to his wife.

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Civil rights

A majority opinion in Williams v. Price, 343 F.3d 223 (3d Cir. 2003), granting a writ of habeas corpus
to a black state prisoner after state courts had refused to consider the testimony of a witness who
stated that a juror had uttered derogatory remarks about blacks during an encounter in the courthouse
after the conclusion of the trial.[16]
A dissenting opinion in Glass v. Philadelphia Electric Company, 34 F.3d 188 (3rd Cir. 1994), arguing
that a lower court did not abuse its discretion in excluding certain evidence of past conduct that
defendant had created a hostile and racist work environment.
A majority opinion in Robinson v. City of Pittsburgh, 120 F.3d 1286 (3rd Cir. 1997), rejecting a
female police officer's Equal Protection-based sexual harassment and retaliation claims against the city
and certain police officials and rejecting her Title VII-based retaliation claim against the city, but
allowing her Title VII-based sexual harassment claim against the city.

Since 1985, Alito has been married to Martha-Ann Alito (born Martha-Ann Bomgardner), once a law librarian
who met Alito due to his many trips to the library as a legal clerk;[9] she has family roots in Oklahoma. They
have two college-age children: Philip and Laura. Alito resided with his family in West Caldwell, New Jersey
before his Supreme Court nomination.[17] He has since moved to a home in Washington D.C..

As adjunct professor at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark from 1999 to 2004, Alito taught courses
in constitutional law and an original course on terrorism and civil liberties. In 1995, Judge Alito was presented
with that law school's Saint Thomas More Medal, "in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of
law."[citation needed] On May 25, 2007, he delivered the commencement address at Seton Hall Law's
commencement ceremony and received an honorary law degree from the law school.[18][19]

He has been a member of the Federalist Society, a group of conservatives and libertarian lawyers and legal
students interested in conservative legal theory.[20]

As a visiting professor at Duke University School of Law, Alito will teach Current Issues in Constitutional
Interpretation in fall 2011 and a course in the Master of Laws in Judicial Studies program in summer 2012.[21]

Main article: Samuel Alito Supreme Court nomination

On July 1, 2005, Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her
retirement from the Supreme Court effective upon the confirmation of a
successor. President George W. Bush first nominated John Roberts to the
vacancy; however, when Chief Justice William Rehnquist died on
September 3, Bush withdrew Roberts' nomination to fill O'Connor's seat
and instead nominated Roberts to the Chief Justiceship. On October 3,
President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to replace O'Connor. However,
Miers withdrew her acceptance of the nomination on October 27 after With President George W. Bush
encountering widespread opposition. looking on, Samuel Alito
acknowledges his nomination.
On October 31, President Bush announced that he was nominating Alito
to O'Connor's seat, and he submitted the nomination to the Senate on November 10, 2005.[22] Judge Alito was

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unanimously rated "well qualified" to fill the Associate Justice post by the American Bar Association's Standing
Committee on Federal Judiciary, which measures the professional qualifications of a nominee. The committee
rates judges as "not qualified," "qualified," or "well qualified."[23]

Alito's confirmation hearing was held from January 9 to January 13, 2006. On January 24, his nomination was
voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 10–8 party line vote. Democratic Senators characterized Alito
as a hard right conservative in the mold of a Clarence Thomas or Robert Bork. Alito professed reluctance to
commit to any type of ideology, stating he would act as an impartial referee. On the abortion issue, he stated that
he would look at that with an open mind but would not state how he would rule on Roe v. Wade if that issue
were to come up before the court. Some pro-life activists, however, claim Alito's confirmation as a victory for
their cause.[24]

Democrats on the committee grilled Alito on his past association with the conservative group Concerned Alumni
of Princeton.[25] Alito stated that he had listed an affiliation with the group on his application to Ronald Reagan's
Justice Department in order to establish his conservative credentials: "You have to look at the question that I was
responding to and the form that I was filling out... I was applying for a position in the Reagan administration.
And my answers were truthful statements, but what I was trying to outline were the things that were relevant to
obtaining a political position."[26] During the confirmation hearings, Alito disavowed the group, whose views
were criticized as racist and sexist, saying: "I disavow them. I deplore them. They represent things that I have
always stood against and I can't express too strongly."[26] During Alito's Senate confirmation hearings, his wife,
Martha Ann Alito, broke into tears after Republicans expressed their disapproval of how Alito was being
characterized by some Democrats on the panel.[27]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) formally opposed Alito's nomination. The ACLU has only taken
this step two other times in its entire history, the last time being with the nomination of Robert Bork who was
rejected by a 58–42 vote in the Senate.[28] In releasing its report[29] on Alito, ACLU Executive Director
Anthony Romero justified the decision saying that "At a time when our president has claimed unprecedented
authority to spy on Americans and jail terrorism suspects indefinitely, America needs a Supreme Court justice
who will uphold our precious civil liberties. Judge Alito's record shows a willingness to support government
actions that abridge individual freedoms."[30]

Debate on the nomination began in the full Senate on January 25. After a failed filibuster attempt by Senator
John Kerry, on January 31, the Senate confirmed Alito to the Supreme Court by a vote of 58–42,[31] with four
Democratic senators voting for confirmation and one Republican and an Independent voting against. Alito's
confirmation vote was the second lowest on the current court, where he is surpassed only by Clarence Thomas
who was confirmed 52-48. Alito became the 110th justice, the second Italian American,[32][33] and the 11th
Catholic in the history of the Supreme Court, and the fifth Catholic on the Court at the time he assumed
office.[34]

Because Alito joined the court mid-term, he had not heard arguments for many cases which had yet to be
decided. The decisions in most of those cases were released without his participation (i.e., with an 8-member
Court); none were 4–4, so Alito would not have been the deciding vote in any of them if he had participated.
Three cases – Garcetti v. Ceballos, Hudson v. Michigan, and Kansas v. Marsh – were reargued, since a tie
needed to be broken.

Alito delivered his first written opinion on May 1, 2006 in the case Holmes v. South Carolina, a case involving

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the right of criminal defendants to present evidence that a third party committed the crime. (Since the beginning
of the Rehnquist Court, new justices have been given unanimous opinions to write as their first majority court
opinion, often done as a courtesy "breaking in" of new justices, so that every justice has at least one unanimous,
uncontroversial opinion under his/her belt). Alito wrote for a unanimous court in ordering a new trial for Bobby
Lee Holmes due to South Carolina's rule that barred such evidence based on the strength of the prosecution's
case, rather than on the relevance and strength of the defense evidence itself. His other majority opinions in his
first term were in Zedner v. United States, Woodford v. Ngo, and Arlington Central School District Board of
Education v. Murphy.

In his first term, Alito voted fairly conservatively. For example, in the
three reargued cases (Garcetti v. Ceballos, Hudson v. Michigan and
Kansas v. Marsh), Alito created a 5–4 majority by voting with four other
conservative Justices – Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia,
Kennedy, and Thomas. He further voted with the conservative wing of
the court on Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon[35] and Rapanos v. United
States. Alito was also a dissenter in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, alongside
Justices Scalia and Thomas.
Alito ceremonially sworn in by Chief
While Alito's voting record is conservative, he does not always join the
Justice John Roberts the day after his
most conservative Justices on the Court. On February 1, 2006, in Alito's
confirmation, February 1, 2006.
first decision sitting on the Supreme Court, he voted with the majority
(6–3) to refuse Missouri's request to vacate the stay of execution issued
by the Eighth Circuit for death-row inmate Michael Taylor; Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia and
Thomas were in favor of vacating the stay. Missouri had twice asked the justices to lift the stay and permit the
execution.[36]

On the abortion issue, it appears that Alito believes some restrictions on the procedure are constitutionally
permitted, but has not signaled a willingness to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In 2003, Congress passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, which led to a lawsuit in the case of Gonzales v.
Carhart. The Court had previously ruled in Stenberg v. Carhart that a state's ban on partial birth abortion was
unconstitutional because such a ban did not have an exception in the case of a threat to the health of the mother.
The membership of the Court changed after Stenberg, with John Roberts and Samuel Alito replacing William
Rehnquist (a dissenter in Roe) and Sandra Day O'Connor (a supporter of Roe) respectively. Further, the ban at
issue in Gonzales v. Carhart was a federal statute, rather than a state statute as in the Stenberg case.

On April 18, 2007, the Supreme Court handed down a decision ruling constitutional the Partial-Birth Abortion
Ban Act. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the five-justice majority that Congress was within its power to
generally ban the procedure, although the Court left open the door for as-applied challenges. Kennedy, writing
for the court, implied but did not absolutely reach the question whether the Court's prior decisions in Roe v.
Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and Stenberg v. Carhart were valid, and instead the Court said that the
challenged statute is consistent with those prior decisions whether or not those prior decisions were valid.

Alito joined fully in the majority as did Chief Justice Roberts. Justice Thomas filed a concurring opinion, joined
by Justice Scalia, contending that the Court's prior decisions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey
should be reversed, and also noting that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act may exceed the powers of Congress
under the Commerce Clause. Alito, Roberts, and Kennedy did not join that assertion. Justices Ginsburg, Souter,
Breyer, and Stevens dissented, contending that the ruling ignored Supreme Court abortion precedent.

Moreover, despite having been at one time nicknamed "Scalito," Alito's views have differed from those of Scalia
(and Thomas), as in the Michael Taylor case cited above and various other cases of the 2005 term. Scalia, a

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fierce critic of reliance on legislative history in statutory interpretation, was the only member of the Court in
Zedner v. United States not to join a section of Alito's opinion that discussed the legislative history of the statute
in question. In two higher-profile cases, involving the constitutionality of political gerrymandering and campaign
finance reform (LULAC v. Perry and Randall v. Sorrell), Alito adopted narrow positions, declining to join the
bolder positions advanced by either philosophical side of the Court. According to a scotusblog.com analysis of
2005 term decisions, Alito and Scalia concurred in the result of 86% of decisions (in which both participated),
and concurred in full in only 75%.[37]

In the 2007 landmark free speech case Morse v. Frederick, Alito joined Roberts' majority decision that speech
advocating drug use can be banned in public schools, but also warned that the ruling must be circumscribed that
it does not interfere with political speech, such as the discussion of the medical marijuana debate.

Alito's majority opinion in the 2008 worker protection case Gomez-Perez v. Potter cleared the way for federal
workers who experience retaliation after filing age discrimination complaints to sue for damages. He sided with
the liberal bloc of the court, inferring protection against retaliation in the federal-sector provision of the Age
Discrimination in Employment Act despite the lack of an explicit provision concerning retaliation.

Legal Memo (http://www.archives.gov/news/samuel-alito/accession-060-89-216/MemphisPol-
v-Garner-1984-box19-memoAlitotoSolicitorGeneral.pdf) written while working in the United States
Solicitor General's office regarding the Fleeing felon rule. (May 18, 1984) (PDF)
'Personal Qualifications Statement' (http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/alito/111585stmnt.html)
when applying to be an Assistant Attorney General under Pres. Ronald Reagan. (November 15, 1985)
Legal Memo written as Deputy Asst. Attorney General to the OMB’s General Counsel regarding OMB
authority of FDIC funds. (http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/alito/carley86mem.pdf) (1986) (PDF)
House Committee on the Judiciary testimony regarding unpublished court opinions.
(http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/alito/hjud62702hrng.pdf) (1990) (PDF)
2003 Financial Disclosure (http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/alito/2003fdr.pdf)
2004 Financial Disclosure (http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/alito/2004fdr.pdf)
Response to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire (http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/us/0511
/alito.questionnaire/SAA.Questionnaire.pdf) (November 30, 2005) (PDF), (Appendix1
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/us/0511/alito.questionnaire/appx.1.13d.pdf) Appendix2
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/us/0511/alito.questionnaire/appx.2.14b.pdf) Appendix3
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/us/0511/alito.questionnaire/appx.3.17.pdf) Appendix4
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/us/0511/alito.questionnaire/appx.4.23c.pdf) )

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27. ^ Marlantes, Liz (January 11, 2005). "Alito Grilling /04-10566.pdf) (PDF). http://www.supremecourt.gov
Gets Too Intense for Some" (http://abcnews.go.com /opinions/05pdf/04-10566.pdf. Retrieved October 20,
/WNT/SupremeCourt/story?id=1495804) . ABC 2010.
News. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/SupremeCourt 36. ^ CNN (Feb 2, 2006)"Justice Alito casts his first
/story?id=1495804. Retrieved February 3, 2010. vote" (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/01
28. ^ Robert Bork and John Roberts /alito/index.html)
(http://voteview.ucsd.edu/bork_and_roberts.htm) 37. ^ SCOTUS Blog (http://www.scotusblog.com
29. ^ http://www.aclu.org/images /movabletype/archives/June28VotingStats.pdf) (By
/asset_upload_file130_23216.pdf scotusblog.com's reckoning, this is less agreement
30. ^ [2] (http://www.aclu.org/scotus/alito/) than between Scalia and Kennedy, O'Connor and
31. ^ "Alito Confirmed as Newest Supreme Court Souter, or Stevens and Ginsburg.) On the recent
Justice" (http://www.npr.org/templates/story abortion ruling, Alito simply joined Anthony
/story.php?storyId=5181091) . NPR. January 31, Kennedy's opinion rather than join Scalia in Thomas's
2006. http://www.npr.org/templates/story stronger assertion.

Bazelon, Emily (October 31, 2005). "Alito v. O'Connor" (http://www.slate.com/id/2129096/nav/tap1/)
. Slate.
"Bush choice sets up court battle" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4392540.stm) . BBC.
Collins, Ronald K.L. (October 31, 2005). Judge Alito: fairly strong on free expression
(http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/analysis.aspx?id=16003) .
Collins, Ronald K.L. (November 3, 2005). Alito as government lawyer: '84 broadcast-regulation case
(http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/analysis.aspx?id=16018) .
Davis, Elliott M. (Summer 2007). The Newer Textualism: Justice Alito's Statutory Interpretation
(http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No3_Davisonline.pdf) . Harvard Journal of
Law & Public Policy
Dickerson, John (October 31, 2005). "Ready To Rumble" (http://www.slate.com/id/2129101
/nav/tap1/) . Slate.
Federal Judicial Center. Judges of the United States (http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=26) (official
curriculum vitae).
Hook, Janet (November 1, 2005). "Bush's Supreme Court Nominee: A Phillies Fan With Blue-Chip
Legal Stats." Los Angeles Times. P. A1.

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Supreme Court (http://www.supremecourt.gov/) official site with biographies
(http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx)
Profile (http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=26) at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges,
a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center
Legal resources (http://www.loc.gov/law/find/alito.php) at the Law Library of Congress
Biography and writings (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/alito.bio.html) at the Legal
Information Institute
Profile (http://www.oyez.org/justices/samuel_a_alito_jr) at the Oyez Project
Appearances (http://www.c-spanvideo.org/samuelalito) on C-SPAN
Profile (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2352866) at the Internet Movie Database
Financial information (http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N99999926) at
OpenSecrets.org
Collected news and commentary (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people
/a/samuel_a_alito_jr) at The New York Times
Works by or about Samuel Alito (http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2005-102615) in libraries
(WorldCat catalog)
Profile (http://www.nndb.com/people/639/000107318) at Notable Names Database
Fox, John, Capitalism and Conflict, Biographies of the Robes, Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr.
(http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/future/robes_alito.html) Public Broadcasting Service.
Washington Post Profile (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10
/31/AR2005103100227.html)
Daily Princetonian profile (http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/10/28/news/13656.shtml)
Profile (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Samuel_A._Alito%2C_Jr.) at SourceWatch
People For The American Way's Preliminary Review of Judge Alito (http://media.pfaw.org
/stc/AlitoPreliminary.pdf) - a liberal group's analysis (PDF).
Read Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding Samuel Alito
(http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/search.tkl?q=alito&search_crit=title&search=Search&
date1=Anytime&date2=Anytime&type=form)
Samuel Alito (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/currentawareness/alito.php)
National Archives Alito links (http://www.archives.gov/news/samuel-alito/)
The White House Judicial Nominations page on Alito (http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov
/infocus/judicialnominees/alito.html)

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United States Attorney for the District of
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New Jersey
Thomas Grenlish Michael Chertoff
1987–1990
Judge of the Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit
John Gibbons Joseph Greenaway
1990–2006
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Preceded by
the United States Incumbent
Sandra Day O'Connor
2006–present
United States order of precedence

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