![]() ![]() poll, he was the conservative Justice the fewest Americans could name, and for years he was overshadowed by his more flamboyant late colleague, Antonin Scalia by Clarence Thomas, whose notorious confirmation hearings were followed by a rivetingly long silence on the bench even by Neil Gorsuch, with his cussed libertarian streak. On the Court, even as Alito’s opinions aligned consistently with the goals of the Republican Party-in particular, of social conservatives-admirers praised him as pragmatic and Burkean. The Times noted that legal scholars characterized his jurisprudence as “cautious” and “respectful of precedent.” Self-described liberals who’d known him-as an undergraduate at Princeton, as a law student at Yale, or in some later professional capacity-sketched portraits of a quiet, methodical, reasonable man. Bush nominated Alito to the Supreme Court, in 2005, many journalists portrayed him as a conservative but not an ideologue. For many years, he lacked the power to do much about that profound distaste, and in any case he had a reputation for keeping his head down. ![]() Justice Samuel Alito belongs to the latter category. Others were shaped by their aversion to those movements. ![]() Some baby boomers were permanently shaped by their participation in the countercultural protests and the antiwar activism of the nineteen-sixties and seventies. ![]()
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