The Latest Breaking News from Samuel Alito

"It just can't be that the court is the only institution that somehow is not subject to checks and balances"

Dick Durbin, chair of Senate judiciary committee, criticizes supreme court justice in wake of billowing ethics scandals

As a general rule, Supreme Court Justices speak through their opinions. From time to time, Justices will be "interviewed"by friendly interlocutors during public events. The screened questions are usually softballs, and even then, the Justices tend to avoid saying anything newsworthy. In recent years, perhaps the biggest outlier was Justice…

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Senator Chris Murphy dismisses Justice Samuel Alito’s claims that Senate has ‘no authority’ to regulate the supreme court

Justice Alito was wrong to suggest Congress has no authority to regulate the Court. But that authority is itself subject to constraint.

Supreme Court justice criticised for flying to Alaska on billionaire’s jet

"No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period,” Alito said

Justice Samuel Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court

Ethics allegations have been raised against Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Sonia Sotomayor. Both sides have retreated into whataboutism.

How the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision made climate change worse