News about Samuel Alito

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.'

The US Supreme Court has allowed an Alabama death row prisoner to challenge the state's lethal injection procedure, which he believes would be unconstitutional. Kenneth Smith, a lefty, filed his complaint in August 2020, arguing that the state's lethal injection program would cause him to undue pain. Smith's lawyers argued that the use of nitrogen gas would greatly reduce the risk of pain. Although the state officials had attempted to execute Smith, they failed after several attempts to insert intravenous lines. Smith was found guilty of murdering Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett in 1989, pictured right.

Justice Samuel Alito of the Supreme Court has stated that he has a 'pretty good idea' who leaked the bombshell draft opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade and condemned the death threats made against the bench in the aftermath. Alito told the Wall Street Journal that the leak made justice for the 'target of assassination attempts,' and that the whole situation fostered a climate of suspicion and mistrust.' We're trying to get back to normal operations as much as we can this year,' I believe.' But it was defiant,' he said.

After the court's decision to temporarily retain access to the abortion pill mifepristone on Friday night, MSNBC anchor Joy Reid mocked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Since a federal judge in Texas ruled that FDA clearance of the drug was not legal, the lawsuit was filed before the Supreme Court on April 7. A judge in Washington state made the opposite decision just hours later, setting the tone for a Supreme Court decision. The women voted 7-2 on Friday to keep accessing the medication, which was approved by the FDA over 20 years ago and now used in more than half of all abortions in the United States. Justices Alito and Clarence Thomas dissatisfied.

Justice Samuel Alito's administrative stay extended the block on a Texas judge's contentious mifepristone ruling. Justices are set to make their decision before midnight on Friday, April 21.

Ron DeSantis recently signed a six-week abortion ban, but polls indicates that only two-thirds of Americans support abortion rights. Following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the majority of Americans support abortions in the first trimester, while support dropped to 36 percent and 20 percent in the third.

Although a case regarding a state ban persists, the Supreme Court allowed a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her middle school's girls athletic teams. The justices refused to disturb an appeals court order that made it possible for the teen, Becky Pepper-Jackson, to continue playing on her school's track and cross-country teams, where she usually ranks near the bottom of the pack. Justice Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas would have allowed West Virginia to enforce Pepper-Jackson's statute against Pepper-Jackson.

The Supreme Court reported on Thursday that it could not identify the individual who leaked a draft of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the lawsuit that overturned Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court released a 23-page report on its probe into the leak, which stunned the political world when Politico first published the draft opinion in May. The court has been trying to identify the person behind the leak and is now looking into the possibility. According to a court report, "it is not possible to find out the identity of any individual who may have skeptically circulated the paper or how the final opinion came out with Politico." No one confessed to openly disclosing the paper, but no such evidence could be used to identify any individual as the source of the document.'

On Tuesday, Asra Nomani told Congress how she had been targeted by awakened activists after raising questions about books that promote critical race theory. Nomani, a girl who was born in India and immigrated to the United States as a child, has been described as the 'face of white supremacy.' Teachers should be focusing on math and reading rather than marketing the 'divisive' ideology,' she told the House Oversight Committee. Her testimony came during congressional hearings on white supremacy, which some believe has resulted in a rise in violence against LGBT Americans.

Jessie Pocock testified before Congress on Wednesday that she thinks children as young as 12 years old could begin to transition their sex as a result of her efforts, Inside Out Youth Advocacy Services, in Colorado Springs, helped 13 year olds relocate without consent of their parents. She continued to deny that children who change their sex at a young age resent the decision and attempt to rectify what they had done, prompting one detransitioner to tweet that she would be able to go to DC to show that cases like hers are real. Pocock's testimony comes amid ongoing hearings over the rise in violence against LGBT Americans following a shooting at a gay club last month

Mace, a conservative who has argued for LGBT rights in the past, including voting for the recently enacted Respect for Marriage Act, confronted Alejandra Caraballo at a session on extremist threats. Caraballo, a trans woman and clinical instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, was speaking at a House Oversight and Reform hearing titled 'Confronting White Supremacy: The Evolution of Anti-Democratic Parties and the Ongoing Threat to Democracy.' Five of the witnesses asked to testify if they considered rhetoric that could be characterized as a "threat to democracy," Rep. Mace asked. Caraballo acknowledged, triggering Mace's taking out a tweet she had made after the Dobbs' decision to reverse Roe vs Wade.

Justice Samuel Alito Jr. (left), who slammed the Roe vs. Wade leak, was accused of revealing the Supreme Court's historic decision concerning contraception and religious rights in 2014. The lawsuit, which was decided 5-4, allowed for-profit companies with religious objections to opt out of offering contraception insurance under Obamacare. The Rev. According to the New York Times, Rob Schenck (right), who supported the court's decision, announced that he and his associates obtained the decision before it was announced after a visit to Alito's home. In a letter sent to Chief Justice John Roberts after the judge ordered an inquiry into Alito's draft decision concerning the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, which resulted in protests around the world, he outlined the leak.

Justice Samuel Alito of the United States said the leak of the draft decision that reversed the constitutional right to abortion made majority justices 'targets for assassination.' During an event in Washington, DC sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Alito condemned the leakage of his draft opinion last May that eventually overturned Roe v. Wade. 'The leak left many of us who were supposed to be in favour of overruling Roe and Casey's assassination targets because it gave people a legitimate reason to believe they could stop this from happening by killing one of us,' Alito said on Tuesday. Alito also gave no hint that the court had figured out who leaked the draft opinion to Politico weeks before its scheduled publication. Nonetheless, he said the leak "was a serious betrayal of trust by anyone."

Olivia Rodrigo promised that her first appearance at the Glastonbury Festival would be unforgettable when she brought pop star Lily Allen onstage for a duet of Allen's "F*ck You." Rodrigo dedicated the song, which features lyrics such as "look inside your tiny brain" and "Because we're so sick/tired of all the hate you harbor" — to Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh, who all voted to reverse Roe vs. Wade on June 24th. "This will be my first Glastonbury and I'm sharing this stage with Lily, it's the biggest dream come true ever," Rodrigo said. "I'm also deeply sad about what happened in America yesterday."