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Ideology is hard to define. Personality and predilection (tendency) are very individual and not always traceable to one certain ideology. But his voting record on the Supreme Court are much easier to trace. He votes most of the time with Scalia and Thomas, the most conservative members on the court. Therefore he is one of the 3 most conservative court justices.

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Justice Alito is a conservative and federalist but has taken a more progressive stance on a limited number of issues, such as restricting domestic intelligence gathering, decriminalizing homosexual activity, and ending hiring discrimination against gays. Although his record demonstrates an aversion to affirmative action suits, he recently voted with the progressives on the Court in the majority opinion in Gomez-Perez v. Potter, 553 US ___ (2008). The 6-3 decision interpreted a congressional statute as outlawing the retaliation against employees who have filed age discrimination suits.

Alito voted with the conservative majority in Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 US 124 (2007), agreeing Congress' ban on partial birth abortions is constitutional, but has not expressed an interest in overturning earlier term abortion options as presented in Roe v. Wade, (1974), Planned Parenthood v. Casey,(1992) or Stenberg v. Carhart, (2007) (the latter case challenged legislation that contained no provision providing for the safety and medical welfare of the mother).

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