Samuel Alito

Samuel Alito

Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated to the high court by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served on it since January 31, 2006. After Antonin Scalia, Alito is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Alito was raised in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, and graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School. After law school, he worked as an assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel and served as the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. In 1990, Alito was appointed as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where he served until joining the Supreme Court. He has called himself a "practical originalist" and is a member of the Supreme Court's conservative bloc.

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• Entity:  Infobox

• Born:  Samuel Anthony Alito Jr, April 1, 1950, Trenton, New Jersey, U.s.
• Age:  76 Years
• Spouse(s):  Martha-Ann Bomgardner
• Children:  2
• Civilian awards:  Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic (2017)
• Preceded by:  Sandra Day O'connor
• Wikidata description:  Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States Since 2006
• Wikidata label:  Samuel Alito
• Wikidata aliases:  Samuel Alito, Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., Samuel A. Alito, Samuel A. Alito Jr.

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