Samuel Alito

JD Vance is sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as Usha Vance holds the Bible during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)

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The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Supreme Court declines to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block climate change lawsuits

President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters after a meeting with Republican leadership at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, Nov. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says he spoke with Trump about clerk before hush-money filing

The Supreme Court is pictured, Oct. 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

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The Supreme Court is pictured, June 30, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Supreme Court rejects appeal challenging Hawaii gun licensing requirements under Second Amendment

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Boston parents over race bias in elite high school admissions

The Supreme Court is framed by the columns of the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance for transgender students

FILE - People attend a rally as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, 2023, by the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on medical treatments for transgender minors

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, Nov. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court Justice Alito reports German princess gave him $900 concert tickets

A supporter of former President Donald Trump waves an inverted American flag during a demonstration outside Trump Tower, Friday, May 31, 2024, in New York. A day after a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony charges, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee addressed the conviction and likely attempt to cast his campaign in a new light. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Upside-down American flag reappears as a right-wing protest symbol after Trump’s guilty verdict

FILE - Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Roberts has declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Roberts rejects Senate Democrats’ request to discuss Supreme Court ethics and Alito flag controversy

FILE - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife Martha-Ann Alito, pay their respects at the casket of Reverend Billy Graham at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Feb. 28, 2018. Alito rejects calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases on Trump and Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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FILE - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pauses after swearing in Mark Esper as Secretary of Defense during a ceremony with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, July 23, 2019. A second flag of a type carried by rioters during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was displayed outside a house owned by Alito according to a report published May 22, 2024, by The New York Times. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Democratic senators request meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over flags flown at Alito’s homes

FILE - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife Martha-Ann Alito, pay their respects at the casket of Reverend Billy Graham at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Feb. 28, 2018. Alito rejects calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases on Trump and Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Second flag carried by Jan. 6 rioters displayed outside house owned by Justice Alito, report says

Attorney Lisa Blatt, of Williams & Connolly LLP, poses for a photograph in front of the Supreme Court, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Washington. Blatt will argue her 50th case before the Supreme Court later this month. She will have argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other woman. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Nearing 50 Supreme Court arguments in, lawyer Lisa Blatt keeps winning

FILE - The U.S Supreme Court is photographed, Jan. 3, 2024, in Washington. The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia, despite claims that it discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)

The Supreme Court leaves in place the admissions plan at an elite Virginia public high school

A little fish at the Supreme Court could take a big bite out of regulatory power

FILE - Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on the uses of artificial intelligence in the federal courts

FILE - People stand on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, Feb.11, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States. It’s the court’s first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

The Supreme Court will rule on limits on a commonly used abortion medication

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, Nov. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

The Supreme Court rejects an appeal over bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, Oct. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

The Supreme Court allows the White House to continue work to combat controversial social media posts

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks with Professor Robert A. Stein at Northrop Auditorium as part of the Stein Lecture Series in Minneapolis, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

Justice Barrett expresses support for a formal US Supreme Court ethics code in Minnesota speech

FILE - Associate Justice Samuel Alito joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, Oct. 7, 2022, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. Alito on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, rejected demands from Senate Democrats that he step aside from an upcoming Supreme Court case because of his interactions with one of the lawyers, in a fresh demonstration of tensions over ethical issues. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Alito rejects Senate Democrats’ call to step aside from an upcoming Supreme Court case

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh speaks at a judicial conference, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh predicts ‘concrete steps soon’ to address ethics concerns

FILE - Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Thomas is acknowledging that he took three trips last year aboard a private plane owned by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. It’s the first time in years that Thomas has reported receiving hospitality from Crow. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Clarence Thomas reports he took 3 trips on Republican donor’s plane last year

FILE - A turtle pokes its nose out of the water in the wetlands inside Sugar Hollow Park in Bristol, Va., June 12, 2023. The Biden administration weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands Tuesday, Aug. 29, saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court sharply limited the federal government’s jurisdiction over them. (Emily Ball/Bristol Herald Courier via AP, File)

After Supreme Court curtails federal power, Biden administration weakens clean water protections

Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks during the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, in Lake Geneva, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

US Supreme Court Justice Barrett says she welcomes public scrutiny of court

FILE - The Supreme Court in Washington is seen at sunset on Oct. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court reinstates regulation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

FILE - Associate Justice Samuel Alito joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, Oct. 7, 2022, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. Alito said in an interview he gave to the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, published Friday, July 28, 2023, that Congress lacks the power to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court, making him the first member of the court to take a public stand against proposals in Congress to toughen ethics rules for justices in response to scrutiny of their activities beyond the bench. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court

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FILE - Senate Judiciary Oversight Committee Chair Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a hearing June 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote Thursday, July 20 on a new ethics code for the Supreme Court, an attempt to respond to recent revelations about justices' interactions with wealthy donors and others. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senate committee approves legislation to impose stronger ethics standards on Supreme Court justices

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court, June 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)

Justice Alito accepted Alaska resort vacation from GOP donors, report says