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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.
Wong v. Smith • []: 562 U.S. 1021 (2010) judicial commenting on evidence • judicial coercion of a jury verdict Roberts, Scalia: Alito filed a dissent from the Court's denial of certiorari, where the lower court had granted habeas relief on the grounds that a judge's comments to a deadlocked jury about the evidence coerced them into returning a guilty verdict.
Alito dissented from the Court's denial of an injunction, in a case involving a Washington state law that compelled disclosure of referendum petitions. The Court had previously decided in the case to reject a facial challenge to the constitutionality of the law, brought by supporters of a failed petition to bar domestic partnership rights to ...
Holmes v. South Carolina: 547 U.S. 319 (2006) Rights of the accused • right to present evidence of third-party guilt : Unanimous: Alito's first opinion on the Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for a criminal defendant's evidence of third-party guilt to be excluded based only on the strength of the prosecution's case.
Alito joined the Court's per curiam opinion, which had reversed the lower court for resolving an ineffective assistance of counsel claim by applying guidelines published by the American Bar Association nearly twenty years after the trial.
Alito concurred in the Court's grant of certiorari, vacatur of the lower court's judgment, and remand for further consideration in light of Fulton v. Philadelphia . References
Alito dissented from the Court's decision to vacate and remand for reconsideration in light of Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013). References
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch dissented from the lifting of the injunctions, with Alito writing, "Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government, and therefore today's decision is highly disturbing." [28] The Court heard oral argument on March 18, 2024. [29]