Samuel Alito Emerges as Most Pro-Trump Justice

Samuel Alito Emerges as Most Pro-Trump Justice

Wall Street Journal: “The 76-year-old justice has emerged in the Trump era as the member of the court who is most likely to give voice to the populism and cultural grievances associated with the new right. And though people in his inner circle chafe at the notion that he is aligned with President Trump’s movement, he has become the justice most likely to provide a legal rationale for the president’s most ambitious policy goals.” “In 100 cases ov…

Samuel Alito may have just tipped his hand on plans as retirement rumors fly: insiders

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has ongoing plans for the Supreme Court, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday."Alito isn’t merely a favored legal mind of MAGA world," said the report. Uniquely among the right-wing justices, "he has managed to merge pro-Trump, antiestablishment forces with the more traditional wing of legal conservatism, long dominated by groups such as the Federalist Society.""In so doing, he is quietly charting the fut…