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Son of Sam - Alito, that is - joins Senate staff

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on March 11, 2015

The son of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has taken a position as counsel for the Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Philip Alito earned a law degree from the Duke University School of Law in 2012. He also has a bachelor's from the University of Virginia and has served as an associate at Gibson Dunn and Crutcher LLP.

The younger Alito worked with another justice's son, Eugene Scalia, while at Gibson Dunn and Crutcher. Philip Alito also has experience clerking for a conservative judge, Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.