Samuel Alito: “I think it was a stress test of our constitutional rights.”

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

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.

But rhetoric is a different story.