Experts say Justice Alito is not particularly open to arguments in favor of same-sex marriage.
Samuel Chase was the only supreme court justice to be impeached.
Yes, US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is a white male.
Samuel Alito is an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court.
Samuel Alito
Samuel Chase
No, Justice Samuel Chase, who served on the US Supreme Court from 1796 - 1811, and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who presided over the Court from 1864 - 1873, were unrelated. Chief Justice Chase's paternal grandfather was named Samuel, but he died in 1800 at the age of 93. Samuel Chase, the justice, died in 1811.
Impeachment was the action voted by the House of Representatives against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. However, the Senate didn't uphold the impeachment.
Samuel Alito is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is head of the Judicial branch of government.
Samuel Alito
When a vacancy occurs because a sitting justice retires, resigns, dies or is impeached and convicted.Only one US Supreme Court justice, Samuel Chase, has ever been impeached, but he was acquitted at trial.
At present (2011) six of the nine US Supreme Court justices are male: Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. Justice Antonin Scalia Justice Anthony Kennedy Justice Clarence Thomas Justice Stephen Breyer Justice Samuel Alito
President George Washington appointed Samuel Chase to the US Supreme Court in 1796. Justice Chase has the distinction of being the only Supreme Court justice impeached by the House of Representatives (1804). He was acquitted at his Senate trial in 1805, and remained on the Court until his death in 1811.