Samuel Alito
Associate justice, US Supreme Court
Samuel Alito, 72, is an American lawyer, devout Catholic and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W Bush in 2005, and has served since 31 January, 2006. He is the 11th Roman Catholic and also, after Antonin Scalia, the second Italian-American justice to serve on the US Supreme Court. Alito wrote the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v Wade and delivered a speech to the Religious Liberty Conference on 21 July saying that religious freedom was “under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power”.
