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WASHINGTON – Associate Justice Samuel Alito, an anchor of conservative thought on the Supreme Court, said he wasn t surprised by the backlash he received recently following a gloves-off speech in which he asserted coronavirus restrictions had created a constitutional stress test by placing unprecedented limits on individual freedom.
Responding to a question about the fracas from USA TODAY, the court s fourth-most senior justice defended the parts of the Nov. 12 speech to the Federalist Society that drew the most controversy, noting they had come directly from several of his recent opinions – in some cases with nearly identical language. Virtually every substantive point in the Federalist Society speech was taken from one of my published opinions or an opinion I joined, Alito, who on Sunday marks his 15-year anniversary on the high court, said in a statement.
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Donald Trump has once again made history and of course not for good reason. He is the first president in American history to ever be impeached twice. Worse, he is the first president in history to be impeached by the biggest bi-partisan vote in history (ten Republicans crossed party lines to vote for his impeachment).
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Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999 were impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives and neither was removed by the Senate. Trump’s trial will likely start in the Senate after President