Reading Alito Backwards
By Michael Pakaluk
I read Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's So Ordered: An Originalist's View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country backwards, chapter-wise, and I'd recommend you do the same. The end of the book tells us about Samuel Alito, the great-hearted man and patriot, while the beginning of the book, academically more respectable, to be sure, dives right into the state of the debate over textualism and originalism, which are not everyone's cup of tea.
The final chapter, "The Real Counterculture," is an address commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of…
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