News about Samuel Alito

The Satanic Temple, a non-theistic organization, has announced the opening of a second abortion clinic set to offer a 'religious' approach to reproductive rights. The new clinic, dubbed the 'Right to Your Life Satanic Abortion Clinic,' will be set in Virginia with the aim to provide free medical abortions to participants who engage in what the temple describes as a 'destruction ritual.'

The United States Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Arizona must enforce part of its voting measures requiring proof of citizenship documentation to register to vote just months before the November election. The decision is victory for Republicans after the state party and Republican National Committee took its request to the country's highest court.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put forth articles of impeachment for conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito on Wednesday. The impeachment resolutions for both justices cite 'failure to disclose financial income, gifts and reimbursements, property interests, liabilities, and transactions, among other information.' The resolution for Thomas also cites 'refusal to recuse from matters' involving his wife's legal and financial interests. The one for Alito cites 'refusal to recuse from cases in which he had a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party in cases before the court.'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put forth articles of impeachment for conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court will allow emergency abortions in Idaho, rolling back the state's near-total ban.  Justices were asked to weigh whether the state violated federal law mandating emergency care for any patient, such as providing abortions for pregnant women in life-or-death situations. It is the first time the nation's highest court has ruled on the scope of a state's abortion ban after overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022.

The Supreme court 'inadvertently' posted - and then quickly deleted - a decision in a monumental abortion case. The case deals with whether emergency room doctors in Idaho, where abortion is nearly banned, can turn away pregnant patients who need the procedure.  Bloomberg first reported on a copy of a ruling that was briefly posted on the court's website before being taken down. It's the second time in two years that a major =ruling on abortion has been disclosed before being formally issued by the justices.

The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat social media posts on controversial topics like COVID-19 and election security. The justices on Wednesday threw out lower-court rulings that favored Louisiana, Missouri and other parties in their claims that officials in the Democratic administration leaned on the social media platforms to unconstitutionally squelch conservative points of view. The case is among several before the court this term that affect social media companies in the context of free speech. 

Maddow, a well-known advocate against Donald Trump and conservatives , joined the daily gabfest and was asked about the behavior of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. She called both out for being 'flagrantly corrupt' and demanded that Roberts do something about it, surprising show co-host Sunny Hostin. 'The blatant corruption of a couple of these Supreme Court justices is John Roberts' problem. He is the chief justice, he has to police it to save his court and to save the legal system,' she said.

A loaded gun was discovered near a Democratic fundraiser in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday. An officer could be seen picking the discarded weapon up off the sidewalk on Saturday. Also outside the event where Presidents Biden and Obama were both speaking, protesters, angered by current US policy on Israel and Palestine, clashed with law enforcement in riot gear. Demonstrators blocked the venue entrance, waving Palestinian flags and chanting slogans. Inside, a star-studded fundraiser aimed to rally support ahead of a crucial election.

'I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused,' Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Wednesday of the American flag that flew upside down at his Virginia home. He wrote Democratic senators and said he refused to step back from cases involving the election, as some Democrats have called for. Alito said his wife was 'fond of flags,' and also addressed the decision to fly an upside down pine tree 'An Appeal to Heaven' flag at his New Jersey vacation home last summer that dates to the Revolutionary War.

'I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused,' Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Wednesday of the American flag that flew upside down at his Virginia home.

The White House on Friday jabbed at the fact that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had an upside-down American flag flying outside his home, saying President Joe Biden treats the flag with respect. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president believes 'the American flag is sacred, and we should be respecting that flag.'  The inverted flag, which symbolizes MAGA's 'Stop The Steal' campaign, flew outside Alito's home in 2021 as the Supreme Court weighed a 2020 election case.  It has been used as a sign of support for former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.   

Justice Samuel Alito's home displayed an upside-down US flag (file photo pictured) favored by the 'Stop the Steal' campaign days after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in January 2021. The flag raises questions about the justice's impartiality as the court handles ongoing election interference cases.

Supreme Court justices are deeply divided on a critical case about whether emergency room doctors in Idaho, where abortion is nearly banned, can turn away pregnant patients who need the procedure. The conservative majority on the court appeared conflicted on some aspects of the case which involves overlapping issues and complicated arguments regarding abortion and medical care.  In one gripping moment, Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett expressed her 'shock' at the risk a doctor would have to take on to provide an emergency abortion - and potentially be criminally prosecuted. 

According to a recent study, Justice Alito plotted a clandestine scheme to persuade the Supreme Court's conservative justices to abandon the constitutional right to an abortion. Last year, the Supreme Court reversed the historic 1973 Roe V Wade decision that made abortion coverage legal and state abortion bans unconstitutional. When a majority voted in the Mississippi case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization on June 24, 2022, there was no constitutional safeguard for abortion.

The justices refused to narrow a lower-court order that has barred the law from being enforced statewide. Except at the Hamburger Mary's restaurant in Orlando, which challenged the law's constitutionality, Florida had requested that the court recognize its anti-drag show law everywhere. Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas, three justices, said they would have accepted the state's request. A panel of the 11th United States Supreme Court voted last month. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court's decision to suspend the Governor. If you're looking for a unique experience, Ron DeSantis-backed legislation that may have barred venues from admitting children into 'adult live performances.'

After the justice told Congress that staying out of the court's business, Senate Judiciary Democrats wrote a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts urging Samuel Alito refrain from future lawsuits concerning tax and ethics issues. In an interview with Alito, the Senate did not establish the Supreme Court.' "I know this is a controversial viewpoint, but I'm willing to admit it.' They have the power to control the Supreme Court because no clause in the Constitution gives them the power to control it.' During the interview, Senate Democrats accused the conservative justice of breaking the existing ethics laws. Following a series of reports of justices enjoying lavish vacations and other perks that indicate potential conflicts of interest, congressional Democrats introduced legislation to implement new ethics laws.

Republicans are celebrating a return to'merit-based' education admissions, while Democrats claim that the Supreme Court's decision to reverse affirmative action will put the clock back on racial justice. The verdict on his Truth Social page, former President Trump, who voted three conservative justices, railed.'This is a great day for America,' he wrote. People with extraordinary capabilities and everything else that are crucial to our country's success, including future greatness, are now being rewarded.' This was the hearing everyone was waiting and awaited for, and the result was jaw-breaking. It will also keep us competitive with the rest of the world.

The Supreme Court has suspended the use of ethnicity as a factor in college admissions. The justices ruled in a 6-3 decision on Thursday that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina's race-based affirmative action admissions are unconstitutional. Both programs lack sufficiently targeted and measurable goals to support the use of race, unavoidably use race in a negative manner, require racial stereotyping, and lack common end points,' according to Chief Justice Roberts' majority opinion.

The news is the latest in a line of allegations that Supreme Court justices are on the lookout for. This time it's conservative Justice Samuel Alito, who has been revealed to have enjoyed a luxurious fishing expedition to Alaska worth tens of thousands of dollars, courtesy of a Republican megadonor. Alito refused to recuse himself from lawsuits involving the billionaire's companies when they later appeared before the court. Alito, rather than responding to investigative news portal ProPublica when its reporters asked for comment, opted to go on the attack.

The Supreme Court preserved the law that gives priority to Native American families in foster care and adoption cases of Native children on Thursday, rejecting a broad reaction from Republican-led states and white families who believed it was based on ethnicity. The 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which was introduced to address complaints that Native children were missing from their families and, more often, put in non-Native homes, has been left in place. Tribal chiefs have endorsed the legislation as a way to safeguard their families', traditions, and cultures.

For the first time as he spoke out against racial profiling he claims he suffered, an Asian-American teenager who could help end affirmative action was captured. Jonathan Wang, 18, achieved a 1590 on his SAT and a 4.65 high school grade point average, but six top schools refused him. He is one of the plaintiffs in a Supreme Court lawsuit aiming to end the procedure after being found to discriminate against high-performing Asian Americans. The Supreme Court announced in January that it would hear protests from anti-affirmative action group Students For Fair Admissions, which claims that Harvard University, a private university, and the University of North Carolina, a state school, discriminate against Asian American applicants. According to the lawsuits, affirmative action - policies that are designed to help members of historically marginalized groups - gives an edge to African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans over Asian students. A move against the schools could result in the demise of the program and the complete disregard of race in college admissions. Wang has sued a public and private college in the hopes of seeing the procedure be outlawed at all universities around the country.

Judges found that the Environmental Protection Agency had wrongfully delivered a diktat to an Idaho couple, requiring them to halt the construction of their dream lakeside home. The EPA pen-pushers told Michael and Chantell Sackett that their house, which is just 300 feet from Priest Lake, could not be constructed on what they called protected wetlands. If they ignored their orders, they threatened to fines of more than $40,000 a day for any violations of US federal environmental law.

Ron DeSantis, who is expected to announce his 2024 candidacy this week, told a crowd in Orlando on Monday that he intends to serve eight years, unlike Trump, and he would swing the Supreme Court. Four of the Supreme Court justices, including Clarence Thomas, 74; Samuel Alito, 73; Chief Justice John Roberts, 68; and Sonia Sotomayor, 68, told the crowd that three justices could retire in the next eight years. 'It's likely that in those eight years, we have the opportunity to deify justices Alito and Thomas as well as making changes with those others,' he said, and if you were able to do so, you'll have a 7-2 conservative majority on the Supreme Court that will last a quarter century.'