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.
Samuel Alito
Judge / Justice
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August 27, 2026
It's like, what are those vultures doing up there? They are flying around. But it goes with life tenure.
— Samuel Alito
Obviously I'm here for another term," the justice recently told The Wall Street Journal.
If that means a high correlation with what Trump wants, fine. If it means zero correlation with what Trump wants, fine as well.
Suppose the child never visited the United States while growing up and was inculcated with hatred of this country.
The Court's interpretation is not only contrary to the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, it produces grotesque results.
And we have rejected the proposition that the Constitution permits an individual to be treated differently based on a 'perception that members of the same racial group — regardless of their age, education, economic status, or the community…
We have said that our ’Constitution is color-blind.’ It ‘almost never’ allows government actors to treat persons differently based on their race.
Under the test, officers will need to quickly assess a person’s race, and if officers and courts must craft special rules for black persons, what about dark-skinned Latinos, other Latinos, and members of other minority groups?