Samuel Alito Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.

  Samuel Alito

  Government, Abortion, Doe

  Samuel Alito's letter (1985), as quoted in "Alito denied that Constitution protected abortion" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2005.

• One of the most solemn responsibilities of the president and it's set out expressly in the Constitution is that the president is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and that means the Constitution. It means statutes. It means treaties. It means all of the laws of the United States.

  Samuel Alito

  Mean, Responsibility, Law

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2006.

• The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

  Samuel Alito

  Thinking, Jewels, Firsts

  "Alito: Threat to Judicial Independence at Historic High" by Michael Scholl, October 4, 2006.

• When I was sworn in as a judge of the court of appeals, I took an oath. I put my hand on the Bible and I swore that I would administer justice without respect to persons, that I would do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I would carry out my duties under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

  Samuel Alito

  Hands, Law, Justice

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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