Conservative Institute·1 hour ago·Sunday, November 15, 2026, 12:02 AM

Alito flags Democratic funding cuts as a way to shut down the Supreme Court

Justice Samuel Alito warned that a Democrat-run Congress could choke off Supreme Court operations by slashing its budget, a step he said would gut judicial independence and revise the Constitution’s design. Speaking Thursday night at the Federalist Society’s annual Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner, the 76-year-old justice laid out how lawmakers control the purse strings for

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