...basis for policy, the best enforcement mechanism would be fertility tests before granting marriage licenses.Justice Samuel Alito worried that the question is just too new, that mobile phones and the Internet have been around longer. Same-sex...

...implication was clear: Most uninsured people either do not want to pay for insurance or cannot afford it. Justice Samuel Alito said, "You can get health insurance." Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made the point that people who don't participate...

...let him know that "it's not selling very well." Scalia wasn't the only ill-tempered justice in the chamber. Samuel Alito rolled his eyes to the ceiling and shook his head in objection when two liberal justices spoke. And Sotomayor took...

"A judge can't have any agenda, a judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case, and a judge certainly doesn't have a client." -Samuel Alito, Supreme Court nominee, at his confirmation hearing.

"If anybody has demonstrated judicial temperament and poise and patience, it is Judge Alito. He ought to be confirmed on that basis alone." -Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., on the Senate Judiciary Committee vote to approve Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Jr.

...In fact, every nominee's path is booby-trapped by the history of previous confirmation battles. After Justice Samuel Alito was nominated in 2005, Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, then a very junior member, remarked to me that he...

...health care and immigration leap to mind immediately. Then, of course, there's the confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Those hearings won't even begin until next year. Specter backed away...

...reasoning and denied any relevance to her life experience. Liberal commentators expressed disappointment; Justice Samuel Alito offered a public atta girl. The trouble is, mechanical, objective decision making is not what the Supreme Court does...

...Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator, recently announced that she would vote against the Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Since she's avoided taking many stands on controversial subjects due to the divisive nature of politics, her hypothetical...

...for 38 years. Officials do not violate free speech rights when they reject requests to display monuments, Justice Samuel Alito said in his opinion for the court. "It is hard to imagine how a public park could be opened up for the installation...