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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said in a recently published interview that he frequently wishes his late colleague, Justice Antonin Scalia, were still around.
“Even since Nino died, things are so different. I so often wish he were still here. He started so much, and it would have been good to have him around to see it to completion,” Alito said, according to a Politico Magazine piece by Newsmax chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, who has authored books about Scalia.
Scalia, who was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, began serving on the Supreme Court in 1986 and remained on the bench until his death in 2016.
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Left: United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito poses for an official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on Oct. 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C.; Right: Associate Justice Antonin Scalia poses for photographers at the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 31, 2005, in Washington D.C. (Left: Alex Wong/Getty Images; Right: Charles Ommanney/Getty Images)
Rosen wrote that he conveyed that one of Scalia’s children had told him that she was grateful to God for taking her father at that time because it meant that he did not have to witness much that would have been upsetting to him.
“He would have been appalled at so much,” Alito concurred, according to the report.
Alito delivered the opinion in the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that struck down the controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision.
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First row left to right,, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Justice John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia, , Justice David H. Souter. Second row left to right, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Samuel Alito pose for…
