Findlaw® Profiles - Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Bush SCOTUS nominee

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Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Nominee

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Name: Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

Occupation: Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Born: Trenton, New Jersey, 1950

Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1972
Yale Law School, J.D., 1975

Family: Married, two children.

(Religion: Roman Catholic (if confirmed, Alito will be the 5th Roman Catholic presently seated on SCOTUS, a majority)

Professional Career:

Law clerk, Hon. Leonard I. Garth, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1976-1977

Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey, 1977-1981

Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, 1981-1985

Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, 1985-1987

U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, 1987-1990

High-Profile Cases With Majority Opinions and Dissents by Alito:

The charts below contain a selection of the high-profile cases with written opinions by Judge Alito since his 1991 appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit by former President George H. Bush, including abortion, First Amendment, criminal, immigration,, civil rights, employment and education cases .


(Findlaw® lists a comprehensive summary analysis of Alito's opinions as a 3d Circuit federal appellate court judge)

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ABORTION CASES
Judge Alito has written judicial opinions that both support women’s reproductive rights, and opinions that some political conservatives and abortion opponents show that Judge Alito might support their beliefs.
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FIRST AMENDMENT CASES
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CRIMINAL LAW CASES
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CIVIL RIGHTS CASES
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IMMIGRATION CASES
A number of Judge Alito's immigration decisions involved applications for asylum from Chinese immigrants who argued that mandatory abortions and forced sterilizations constituted political persecution by the Chinese government.
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EMPLOYMENT LAW CASES
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EDUCATION LAW CASES
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