The Latest Breaking News from Samuel Alito

Prince Harry openly mocked by Supreme Court figure for opposing US abortion law

Prince Harry appeared to reference the recent overturning of the Roe v Wade abortion law during a speech at the United Nations next week - and now US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has hit back at Harry for his comments

Daily Mirror · Jul 29, 2022

Alito taunts critics of abortion ruling

After writing an opinion striking down Roe, Alito hits out at Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau and Prince Harry

Salon · Jul 29, 2022

Samuel Alito: Supreme Court justice mocks Boris Johnson and Prince Harry over reaction to abortion ruling

Samuel Alito mocked world figures for their criticism of decision which overturned abortion rights in US

Evening Standard · Jul 29, 2022

SCOTUS leak derailed effort to save Roe

Roberts tried to sway Justice Brett Kavanaugh before an unidentified leaker blew up his efforts

Salon · Jul 26, 2022

Alito's Dobbs decision: Bad theology

Alito's conception of morality, in his abortion decision, relies on a patriarchal theology most Americans reject

Salon · Jul 26, 2022

Overturning Roe is not making laws reflect what people want -- new survey highlights flaws in Supreme Court's reasoning in returning abortion authority to states

Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, multiple states have enacted laws prohibiting or restricting women from obtaining an abortion.

The Conversation · Jul 25, 2022

For Legal Conservatives, Six Decades Of Folding, Followed By Sixteen Years To Draw A Full House

On the plus side, we had Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. On the down side, we had Roberts, Souter, Kennedy, O'Connor, Powell, Blackmun, Burger, Stewart, Whittaker, Brennan, and Warren.

Reason · Jul 25, 2022

Editorial: After Dobbs, same-sex marriage could be threatened. Congress is right to codify it

With the upheaval caused by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade came aftershocks of worry about what could come next. Could, as Justice Clarence Thomas suggested in his concurring opinion, same-sex marriage get lined up in the court’s crosshairs as a future target? Contraception? Interracial marriage?

Chicago Tribune · Jul 25, 2022

Supreme Court leak probe: So many questions, so few answers

Less than 24 hours after the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion that overturned Roe v_ Wade, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation into what he called an “egregious breach.”

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2022

Heidi Stevens: The world is on fire. Why are we debating people's right to marry who they love?

I thought, naively it turns out, we might get to a point in my lifetime where we stop saying same-sex marriage. Where we just say marriage.

Tribune News Service · Jul 22, 2022