Samuel Alito

It’s offensive,” he said. “I honestly try to decide every single case on the merits, every single application on the merit.

The example of the casinos, I thought, was telling, and the governor of Nevada at that time said the casinos are open.

One of the things that, unfortunately, it disclosed was that many people were willing to downgrade certain constitutional rights: the right to freedom of speech and the right to the free exercise of religion.

I think it was a stress test of our constitutional rights.

And I think it’s a danger for the courts.

We didn’t know it when we produced the draft that was leaked, but it required courage to go ahead with that because of the implications.

The physical threats and the harassment represents something new in our society and something that is quite disturbing … And I think it’s a danger to the courts, and I think it’s a danger to others in public life.

It's like, what are those vultures doing up there? They are flying around. But it goes with life tenure.

It's not pleasant, in the sense that it's a reminder of mortality," Alito said, referring to the conservative calls for him to move along for the good of the legal right.

Obviously I'm here for another term," the justice recently told The Wall Street Journal.

If that means a high correlation with what Trump wants, fine. If it means zero correlation with what Trump wants, fine as well.