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Samuel Alito: Architect of the Court’s Conservative Supermajority – A Special SCOTUS Series
Samuel Alito: Architect of the Court’s Conservative Supermajority Early Life and Education Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. was born in 1950 in Trenton, New Jersey, to an Italian-American family rooted in education and public service. His father, an immigrant from Italy, worked for the New Jersey legislature, while his mother taught school. Alito excelled academically, graduating…
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How UNC Became a Quiet Architect of a Controversial Accreditor
Statewide Editor’s Note: Original contains audio. In July 2024, the UNC System and the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, convened representatives from Florida, Georgia, Iowa, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia to talk about alternatives to the current model for accreditation, documents show. The UNC System then recommended in a September 2024 report that…
