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    • Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. 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. After Antonin Scalia, Alito is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Alit… See more

    BornSamuel Anthony Alito Jr. · April 1, 1950 · Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
    SpouseMartha-Ann Bomgardner · (m. 1985)
    Children2
    EducationPrinceton University (BA) · Yale University (JD)
    Early life and education

    Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He was the son of Samuel A. Alito Sr., a Calabrian immigrant from Roccella Ionica, Calabria, and Rose Fradusco, an Italian-American whose parents came from Palazzo San Gervasio… See more

    Early legal career

    After graduating from law school, Alito clerked for Third Circuit appeals judge Leonard I. Garth in Newark, New Jersey, in 1976 and 1977. He interviewed with Supreme Court Justice Byron White for a clerkship b… See more

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    What did Alito do before he became a lawyer?
    After four years with the district attorney’s office, Alito moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked as an assistant to the solicitor general for the U.S. Justice Department and argued cases for the government before the Supreme Court, a seat on which he had set his sights years earlier.

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    Why is Alito a right winger?
    He is known for his right wing leanings that sometimes encompass libertarian ideals. Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey on April 1, 1950. Both of his parents were teachers, and his father was an Italian immigrant. That identity would later inform the way Alito viewed discrimination.

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    As a justice of the highest court, Alito continues to rule based solely on the case in front of him, unlike his conservative colleagues’ style of ruling based on an overarching theory. Even so, Alito tends to reach the same conclusions as his conservative colleagues.

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