And he’s pissed that the other Supreme Court members ain’t seeing things ‘HIS’ way.
Samuel Alito is a VERY angry old man……
What’s Wrong with America?
Why don’t they see President Donald J. Trump as the ‘KING’?
Why is his country catering to ‘Liberal’s’?
Why won’t others help him restore America BACK to the old days?
And being prickly about it….
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a remarkable record of transforming his old dissenting opinions into the new majority view and setting the direction of the law in America.
Yet the more he wins, the testier he gets.
His most obvious coup came with his 2022 opinion reversing abortion rights. This month’s decision siding with Republicans in the Texas redistricting fight offered a new reminder that Alito in 2024 seized the majority in claims of racial gerrymanders – after being on the losing side a few years earlier.
Still, even on the dominant side of the court, Alito is easily irritated. He lodged a separate, last-minute broadside against liberal dissenters in the Texas dispute over a map alleged to discriminate against Black and Latino voters.
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In the courtroom, even the little things can visibly irk Alito. He often grimaces and rolls his eyes. During a death-penalty dispute this month, Alito began offering a hypothetical example to the lawyer at the lectern. The lawyer responded, “may I just finish my sentence?” and then kept talking.
When Alito was able to resume, he laid bare his impatience, saying, “On that hypothetical, three or four sentences later ….”
Other justices laughed. They appear accustomed to his unguarded irritability….
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In 2026, Alito will also likely be the most-watched justice for anyone wondering if President Donald Trump will soon get another vacancy to fill. Trump had three appointments to the nine-member bench in his first term.
Alito, 75, and Clarence Thomas, 77, are the eldest justices. Thomas, who was appointed in 1991 at the young age of 43 and is now the fifth-longest serving justice in US history, has suggested that he has no intention of retiring while he is healthy….
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Much of Alito’s trajectory through his two decades has involved reversing precedent, most notably the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned nearly a half century of precedent backing the constitutional right to an abortion….
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Alito, reserved by nature, tried to keep a relatively low profile after he was confirmed in January 2006. After the State of the Union episode that made headlines, he has not returned for any other presidential speech before Congress.
Media scrutiny plainly sticks in his craw.
The mantle of victimization has perplexed some law clerks from earlier sessions who considered him easy-going. The justices appear to accept his crankiness. That was evident in an episode two years ago, when a hypothetical scenario Alito offered to a lawyer at the lectern seemed particularly revealing.
“Let’s say I’m complaining about my workplace. It’s cold. It’s set at 63 degrees. There isn’t any coffee machine. The boss is unfriendly. All my co-workers are obnoxious.”
Other justices began chuckling at the scenario that seemed to be cutting close to home, prompting Alito to declare dryly: “Any resemblance to any living character is purely, purely accidental.”….
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