===Hard Right===
"There will be no one to the right of Sam Alito on this Court. This is a pretty hardcore fellow on [[abortion]] issues." --Jonathan Turley, [http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/31/alito-turley/ ''Think Progress''], October 31, 2005. [http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/10/31.html#a5629 Video], ''Crooks and Liars''.
"Judges who have served with Samuel Alito say he's unquestionably a conservative who would push the Supreme Court to the right, likely favoring new [[abortion]] restrictions that retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor would not," Associated Press writer Hope Yen [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/11/03/colleagues_alito_unlikely_to_overturn_roe/ reported] November 3, 2005.
"'Of course he's against abortion,' his 90-year-old mother Rose told reporters at her home in Hamilton, N.J." --[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051031/ap_on_go_su_co/bush_scotus_52&printer=1 Associated Press], October 31, 2005.