Summary: The Ideology Of Samuel Alito Justice

The Supreme Court of the United State is balanced by the justices’ ideologies which are liberal and conservative. These two ideologies are the principle of equality before the law because the justices’ ideology and their votes on the Court have a strong relationship. It is fairly common that justices decide cases based on their own policy preferences. According to “Gate Ways to Democracy” (514), we have the figure which shows the ideology of the Supreme Court Justices in 2014 in ranking from the most liberal to the most conservative that is started from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, Anthony Kennedy, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, to Clarence Thomas. Through the figure, Sonia Sotomayor is the most liberal justice, and Clarence Thomas is the most conservative justice. After Thomas, Samuel Alito is supposed the second conservative justice in the Supreme Court. In this essay, we are going to identify more about the ideology of Samuel Alito justice.
First of all, Alito is one of four Justices who rejected the Affordable Care Act strongly in the case of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius in 2012. They argued the individual mandate was unconstitutional because it represented an attempt by Congress to regulate beyond its power under the Commerce Clause, and the Individual Mandate as a tax rather than a penalty. In 2014, he wrote the 5-4 decision exempting Hobby Lobby and other closely held businesses with religious objections from the Affordable Care. In 2015, along with Scalia and Thomas, Samuel Alito continued to deliver a scathing dissent opinion to oppose the upholding of a critical component of the Affordable Care Act in King v. Burwell. The Republicans always oppose Obamacare very strongly, and Alito always stays where conservatives