Samuel Alito: “But rhetoric is a different story.”

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 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.

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

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