( December 11, 2023, 2:09 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Acknowledging that intervention in U.S. Supreme Court cases “is reserved for unusual circumstances,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Dec. 11 dissented to the court’s denial of a motion by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to intervene in a suit over the federal government’s potential coercion of social media platforms and violations of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, opining that the presidential candidate may be irreparably harmed because his parallel lawsuit is presently stalled in a trial court pending resolution of the present case....