	Introduction

Judge Samuel Alito, who has been nominated by President Bush to take retiring JusticeSandra Day O'Connor's seat as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, has been a judge on theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 1990. This report examines his major judicialopinions, both for the majority and in dissent, in freedom of speech cases. (1) It also briefly discusses somecases in which he joined the opinion for the court but did not write it. (2) This report examines JudgeAlito's free speech opinions by subject area.
Judge Samuel Alito, who has been nominated by President Bush to take retiring JusticeSandra Day O'Connor's seat as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, has been a judge on theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 1990. This report examines his major judicialopinions, both for the majority and in dissent, in freedom of speech cases. It also briefly discussessome cases in which he joined the opinion for the court but did not write it. This report examinesJudge Alito's free speech opinions by subject area.