In his bitter remarks about the decision, the president went out of his way to praise dissenters Clarence Thomas, SamuelAlito, and Brett Kavanaugh. It’s Alito who could make some additional political news later this year.
Speculation, particularly among liberal commentators, has started to swirl around possible retirement plans of JusticeSamuelAlito. Alito, the second-oldest justice and one of the most conservative, joined the high court 20 years ago.
Supreme Court JusticeSamuelAlito made an enigmatic remark about his late mentor Antonin Scalia in an uncharacteristically unguarded interview ... “He would have been appalled at so much,” Alito said.
With rulings upholding both the Texas and California maps, the result is that the two states may essentially cancel out each other's partisan gains ....