Samuel Alito: “Obviously I'm here for another term," the justice recently told The Wall Street Journal.”

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

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.

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.