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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.
[1] [2] It was Obama's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker , Nancy Pelosi , accompanied by Joe Biden , the vice president , in his capacity as the president of the Senate .
Obama conducted hour-long one-on-one interviews with the four finalists, meeting with Wood and Kagan on May 19, and Sotomayor and Napolitano on May 21. [37] Vice President Joe Biden also interviewed the four finalists. [37] Obama telephoned Judge Sotomayor at 9 pm EST on May 25 to alert her that she was his choice. [37]
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 ...
Democratic senator Barack Obama said, "Though I will reserve judgment on how I will vote on Judge Alito's nomination until after the hearings, I am concerned that President Bush has wasted an opportunity to appoint a consensus nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor and has instead made a selection to appease the far right-wing of the ...
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 ...
Controversy with Justice Alito, Jan. 6. ... a 2000s conservative movement that grew after the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. The original Tea Party, of course, was in Boston in 1773, and ...
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