Samuel Alito
Events (23)
- February 6, 1986 and After: Justice Department Recommends Incremental Increase in Use of Signing Statements 1986-02-06
- October 3-27, 2005: Miers Nomination to Supreme Court Fails 2005-10-03
- October 31, 2005 - February 1, 2006: Alito Becomes Supreme Court Justice; Swings Balance of Court to Right 2005-10-31
- January 9-13, 2006: Alito Dodges Questions about His Support for ‘Unitary Executive’ Theory 2006-01-09
- June 28, 2006: Supreme Court Upholds Most of Texas’s Controversial Redistricting Map 2006-06-28
- June 30, 2006: Supreme Court Rules Existing Guantanamo Military Commissions Are Illegal; Detainees There Have Legal Rights 2006-06-30
- June 22, 2008: Court Rules Detainees Have Habeas Corpus Rights 2008-06-22
- June 26, 2008: Court Overturns ‘Millionaire’s Amendment’ of Campaign Finance Law 2008-06-26
- March 9, 2009: Supreme Court Narrows Voting Rights Act Provisions 2009-03-09
- March 15, 2009: Supreme Court Hears ‘Citizens United’ Campaign Finance Case, Initial Arguments Presented 2009-03-15
- May 27, 2009: Supreme Court Nominee’s Remarks on Ethnic Influence Similar to Those of Conservative Nominee in 2006 2009-05-27
- July 16, 2009: Conservative Pundit: ‘Affirmative Action’ Latina Judge Should Not Be Confirmed to US Supreme Court Because America Is ‘a Country Built Basically by White Folks’ 2009-07-16
- September 9, 2009: Supreme Court Hears Second Round of Arguments in ‘Citizens United,’ Verdict Same as Before 2009-09-09
- January 21, 2010: In ‘Citizens United’ Case, Supreme Court Finds Corporations Can Spend Unlimited Amounts in Political Campaigns via First Amendment Protections 2010-01-21
- January 27-29, 2010: Obama Criticizes ‘Citizens United’ Ruling in State of the Union Address, Supreme Court Justice Mouths ‘Not True’ in Retort 2010-01-27
- February 2, 2010: Supreme Court Justice Publicly Defends ‘Citizens United’ Ruling 2010-02-02
- March 8, 2010: Chief Justice Complains that Congressional Democrats Cheered Criticisms of ‘Citizens United’ Decision 2010-03-08
- July 7 - August 16, 2010: ’Birther’ Lawyer Appeals Fine to Supreme Court, Appeal Denied; Lawyer Alleges Court Docket Tampered With 2010-08-16
- March 2, 2011: Supreme Court Finds Anti-Gay Church’s Protest at Soldier’s Funeral Protected by First Amendment 2011-03-02
- May 14, 2012: Law Professors Unsure of Some of Author’s Claims Regarding Chief Justice’s Machinations in ‘Citizens United’ Decision 2012-05-14
- May 14, 2012: Author and Reporter: Chief Justice Engineered ‘Citizens United’ to Expressly Invalidate Campaign Finance Law 2012-05-14
- May 30, 2012: Retired Supreme Court Justice Says Corporations Should Have No More Right to Vote than Foreign Citizens 2012-05-30
- Mid-2004 and After: Wisconsin Right to Life Group, Lawyer Challenge Campaign Finance Restrictions