Samuel Alito: “Presents a specific, if subtle, message about marriage.”

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

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.

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.

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