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

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.

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

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

But rhetoric is a different story.