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The last day of the Supreme Court term proved to be eventful for Justice Samuel Alito. While no one was surprised that he dissented from the Court’s decision invalidating President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, there was also a mistaken National Public Radio report, promptly retracted, that Alito had announced his retirement. With the midterm elections later this year, the commentariat had speculated that perhaps the 76-year-old Alito would retire to ensure that a Republican Senate would be in place to confirm the president’s nominee before November. Alito, to be clear, did not say or do anything to prompt this speculation. Why would Alito leave the Court now? With its current 6-3 conservative supermajority, not much stands in the way of the Court’s ongoing efforts to revise the law of the land. The Trump administration may have lost the birthright citizenship case, but it nevertheless prevailed the week before in two cases in which the Court agreed with the administration’s restrictive interpretations of federal immigration law. Alito was the author of the Court’s principal opinion in both cases. Although it may not be apparent from the sense of grievance Alito often projects, the Court has been moving steadily rightwards since he was appointed more than two decades ago. More than any other justice, except perhaps Clarence Thomas, Alito has supported that project by voting consistently with the Court’s right wing. In Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement, Peter S. Canellos traces the roots of Alito’s conservativism to the turbulence of the 1960s, shows how the son of an Italian immigrant father and a first-generation Italian-American mother advanced to the highest tiers of the legal profession through the support of the Federalist Society, and describes how Alito has helped the Court shift the law significantly to the right since his appointment. Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement by Peter S. Cannellos. Simon & Schuster, 384 pp. This portrait of Alito is familiar to those who follow the Supreme Court, largely because of his authorship of the opinion in Dobbs, which overturned Roe v. Wade. Perhaps the most interesting part of Canellos’s book, then, is his account of Alito’s confirmation hearing. In late 2005 and early 2006, President George W. Bush and the Senate were navigating the shifting terrain of… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 days ago - 0% intro APR until 2024 is 100% insane
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The last day of the Supreme Court term proved to be eventful for Justice Samuel Alito. While no one was surprised that he dissented from the Court’s decision invalidating President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, there was also a mistaken National Public Radio report, promptly retracted, that Alito had announced his retirement. With the midterm elections later this year, the commentariat had speculated that perhaps the 76-year-old Alito would retire to ensure that a Republican Senate would be in place to confirm the president’s nominee before November. Alito, to be clear, did not say or do anything to prompt this speculation. Why would Alito leave the Court now? With its current 6-3 conservative supermajority, not much stands in the way of the Court’s ongoing efforts to revise the law of the land. The Trump administration may have lost the birthright citizenship case, but it nevertheless prevailed the week before in two cases in which the Court agreed with the administration’s restrictive interpretations of federal immigration law. Alito was the author of the Court’s principal opinion in both cases. Although it may not be apparent from the sense of grievance Alito often projects, the Court has been moving steadily rightwards since he was appointed more than two decades ago. More than any other justice, except perhaps Clarence Thomas, Alito has supported that project by voting consistently with the Court’s right wing. In Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement, Peter S. Canellos traces the roots of Alito’s conservativism to the turbulence of the 1960s, shows how the son of an Italian immigrant father and a first-generation Italian-American mother advanced to the highest tiers of the legal profession through the support of the Federalist Society, and describes how Alito has helped the Court shift the law significantly to the right since his appointment. Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement by Peter S. Cannellos. Simon & Schuster, 384 pp. This portrait of Alito is familiar to those who follow the Supreme Court, largely because of his authorship of the opinion in Dobbs, which overturned Roe v. Wade. Perhaps the most interesting part of Canellos’s book, then, is his account of Alito’s confirmation hearing. In late 2005 and early 2006, President George W. Bush and the Senate were navigating the shifting terrain of… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out. [TheTopNews] Read More.
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