When was justice alito appointed

The Senate confirmed him by a vote of in January , making him the th justice to serve on the Court. While on the Third Circuit, Alito had established himself as a strong defender of commercial , student , and religious expression. In Fraternal Order of Police v. City of Newark 3d Cir. Hobbs Arkansas prison officials sought to justify a policy prohibiting even short beards, because inmates might hide contraband in them. Summum The religion argued that the city engaged in viewpoint discrimination by denying its monument but placing a Ten Commandments monument in the park years earlier.

Instead, Alito reasoned that monuments in a public park were a form of government speech. In a later government speech case, Walker v. In his dissent, Alito wrote that a reasonable observer of the specialty plates would view the plates more as an expression of the car owner or driver more so than the government. Phelps , a case involving a protest of a military funeral by members of the Westboro Baptist Church.

The Court ruled in favor of the protesters, reasoning that they complied with lawful police orders to engage in their very offensive speech. Check local listings. Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. In , while still at Princeton, Alito led a student conference on the "Boundaries of Privacy in American Society" that advocated broad application of the Bill of Rights and opposed domestic spying.

After graduating from Yale, Alito clerked for a federal judge for one year and then became an assistant U. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, a position he held from to In , after Ronald Reagan was elected president, Alito became assistant to the U. Bush Confirmed Appointed by George H.

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How do I update a page? Election results. Privacy policy About Ballotpedia Disclaimers Login. Court: Supreme Court of the United States. A Nominated: October 31, A Questionnaire: Questionnaire. A Hearing: January , A QFRs Follow-up questions may be prepared and submitted to nominees for written replies to expand on their testimony.

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The most important question is whether Congress or the courts should create a damages remedy. Here the answer is Congress. In these cases, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that this mandatory-detention requirement applies only if a covered alien is arrested by immigration officials as soon as he is released from jail.

When a breath test is impossible, enforcement of the drunk-driving laws depends upon the administration of a blood test. Abood was poorly reasoned. Texas does not dispute that race was the predominant factor in the design of HD90, but it argues that this was permissible because it had 'good reasons to believe' that this was necessary to satisfy Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Our profound national commitment to free and open debate is not a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case.

It does not follow, however, that they may intentionally inflict severe emotional injury on private persons at a time of intense emotional sensitivity by launching vicious verbal attacks that make no contribution to public debate.

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