Justice Samuel Alito Case

Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. currently holds a position on the Supreme Court of the United States as one of the court’s conservative justices. He is known for his right wing leanings that sometimes encompass libertarian ideals. His father was an immigrant, and Alito’s Italian identity would later inform the way Alito viewed discrimination. He attended Steinart High School, the local public school, where he immersed himself in extracurricular activities with a focus on student politics and debate. He graduated at the top of his class and continued his education at Princeton University. During his time at Princeton, Alito participated in the school’s ROTC program, afterwards receiving his officer’s commission to become a 2nd Lieutenant with the Army Reserve. He would go on to reach the rank of Captain. When …show more content…
For sixteen years, Alito served as a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals. It was here that he proved to be difficult to predict in his rulings. “While he was a conservative judge, he approached rulings on a case-by-case basis, rather than perceiving and assigning a farther-reaching ideology to the case at hand with the hope of that ideology extending to cases beyond the present one.” (Chicago-Kent par. 3) Alito’s heritage as the child of an immigrant made him sensitive to the plights of those he viewed to be like him, as shown in his alignment with the majority in Fatin v. INS (12 F.3d 1233, 1993). The case, regarding an Iranian woman seeking asylum, was heard in 1993, and the court stated that she was eligible for asylum based on her membership in a feminist organization. This bleeding-heart style of conservatism ended when he did not identify with the litigant. In 1991, Alito dissented in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (505 U.S 882, 1992), a case where the majority struck down a law that forced women to alert their husbands before getting an