The Latest Breaking News from Samuel Alito

On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito repeated the common myth that "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater" is unprotected speech.

Two minor but telling developments this week provide dismal reminders that the U.S. Supreme Court is mired in a crisis of legitimacy because of what certainly looks like overt partisanship by its conservative majority. Chief Justice John Roberts should add these to the multiple other examples of broken trust by…

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said the leak of his draft opinion eliminating the constitutional right to abortion made members of the majority “targets for assassination.”

"It gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us," he said.

Excerpts reported by late senator’s biographer show Alito, who wrote June ruling that outlawed abortion, said he was ‘big believer in precedents’

Alito's opinion overturning Roe is literally built on fake history — and a sneak attack on the First Amendment

Legitimacy. The word has dominated discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court for years. Some, mostly on the left, claim that the court has lost its legitimacy. The debate on this question even has spread to the court itself, with comments on the matter made by Justices Elena Kagan, John Roberts…

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears open to making it harder to create majority Black electoral districts

In Merrill v Milligan, the court will decide whether Alabama’s new congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act