Samuel Alito
Associate justice, US Supreme Court
Samuel Alito, 73, 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 Catholic and, following 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 in July 2022, stating that religious freedom was “under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power”. He has consistently voted in accordance with his conscience, recently dissenting when the Supreme Court reversed a ruling that would have banned the morning-after pill drug, mifepristone.
