Liberals say Alito has a cramped view of the Constitution and the rights it protects in the modern era. He stands alongside Thomas as the court’s most steadfast supporters of Trump’s legal arguments. Alito dissented in each of the three major rulings the president lost in the court’s last term – cases over his global tariffs, his restrictions on birthright citizenship, his bid to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook.

“On a Supreme Court with a supermajority of incredibly conservative jurists, Justice Alito still stands out as the most consistently conservative,” said Brianne Gorod, chief counsel of the progressive Constitutional Accountability Center. “Whatever the subject and whoever the parties, Justice Alito has proven himself over two decades on the court to be a reliable vote for the conservative interest in the case.”