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Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. (ə-LEE-toh; born April 1, 1950) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served since January 31, 2006. After Antonin Scalia, he is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and the eleventh Catholic. Alito was raised in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, and educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School. After graduating, he worked as an assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel and served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. In 1990, Alito was appointed as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where he served until joining the Supreme Court. He has called himself a "practical originalist" and is a member of the Court's conservative bloc. He has been described as one of the Court's "most conservative justices".Alito's majority opinions in landmark cases include Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, McDonald v.