Samuel Alito
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Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated to the high court by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served on it since January 31, 2006. After Antonin Scalia, Alito is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
With President George W. Bush looking on, Alito acknowledges his nomination.
Alito ceremonially sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts the day after his confirmation, February 1, 2006.
Alito swearing in Mark Esper as the United States Secretary of Defense in 2019.
Yale Law School
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Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United States. Its yield rate of 87% is also consistently the highest of any law school in the United States.
Yale Law School class of 1883
Four African-American students, class of 1921
Yale Law School is housed in the Sterling Law Building, erected in 1931. Modeled after the English Inns of Court, the building is located at the center of Yale's campus and contains a law library, a dining hall, and a courtyard.
Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building