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Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. (/ ə ˈ l iː t oʊ / ə-LEE-toh; born April 1, 1950) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated to the high court by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served on it since January 31, 2006.
In explaining his opposition to Samuel Alito, Obama further evaluated the qualities he found important in a Supreme Court justice: I have no doubt that Judge Alito has the training and qualifications necessary to serve. He's an intelligent man and an accomplished jurist. And there's no indication he's not a man of great character.
On December 16, 2015, Obama nominated Palk to serve as a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, to the seat vacated by Stephen P. Friot, who took senior status on December 1, 2014. He received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 20, 2016. [274]
Among the Democratic appointees, Obama-nominated Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 69, is the oldest. Justice Elena Kagan, another Obama appointee, is 63 and Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom President Biden put ...
A commendable example of the former is senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor, who published an opinion essay in the New York Times in May criticizing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s ...
Associate Justice: Stephen Breyer: Bill Clinton: August 3, 1994 77.6% 66/85 7 5 1 10 23 Associate Justice: Samuel Alito: George W. Bush: January 31, 2006 87.1% 74/85 7 6 1 4 18 Associate Justice: Sonia Sotomayor: Barack Obama: August 6, 2009 81.7% 67/82 7 9 0 6 22 Associate Justice: Elena Kagan: Barack Obama: August 7, 2010 76.8% 43/56 7 0 0 3 10
A federal judge apologized after he was found to have violated the judiciary’s code of conduct for publishing an op-ed earlier this year criticizing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over a ...
The total number of Obama Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by the United States Senate is 329, including two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 55 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, 268 judges to the United States district courts, and four judges to the United States Court of International Trade.