Justice Samuel Alito's dissent was a platform to vent about his views of judicial overreach — while engaging in some himself.
A majority of Supreme Court justices did not attend Donald Trump’s joint speech to Congress Tuesday night, among them two of the court’s three liberals: Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Also absent were Justices Samuel Alito,
Constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday evening that Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s ruling in a case involving an effort to freeze $2 billion in foreign aid payments is right “on the merits.
The court rarely sides with death row inmates, so this rebuke to dishonest prosecutors is a remarkable victory in the fight against unconstitutional executions. But the case has several unusual features that make it more of an outlier than the turn of a new leaf.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a California police officer denied qualified immunity in a civil rights case. Justice Samuel Alito was not pleased and said in a dissent Monday that the Court should have reviewed the case to correct a “serious misstep” in the lower court’s analysis.
The high court, by a 5-4 vote, turned down an appeal from President Trump's lawyers on Wednesday on the disbursement of nearly $2 billion in foreign funds.
Earlier, the chief justice temporarily let the Trump administration avoid paying out congressionally appropriated funds for now.