Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

Samuel A. Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2006. Alito is known for his judicial conservatism and his many famous Supreme Court opinions, including McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), which held that state and local laws restricting the right to bear arms violate the Second Amendment, and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2023), which overturned the Court’s earlier recognition of a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade (1973).