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Samuel A. Alito Jr. is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.Judge Alito was born in 1950 in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in 1972, and went to Yale Law School, where he earned a J.D. in 1975. From 1981 to 1985 he was Assistant to the United States solicitor general , and was Deputy assistant to the U.S. attorney general from 1985 to 1987. After a brief stint as U.S. Attorney for the district of New Jersey, he was nominated by George H.W. Bush in 1990 to the Third Circuit. He is currently considered part of potential nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Because of his ideological similarity to Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of the United States located in Washington, D. is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States to interpret and decide questions of federal law. It is he Justice Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia (born March 11, 1936) has been a US Supreme Court Associate Justice since 1986. He is widely considered the leading conservative voice on the Court. Antonin Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey. His mother, Catherine, was born in the Unit, some have nicknamed him "Scalito".
