Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Talks About his New Book, Weighs in on Court Decisions (VIDEO)
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was interviewed by "Fox News Sunday" host Shannon Bream. The post Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Talks About his New Book, Weighs in on Court Decisions (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
TL;DR
- Justice Samuel Alito released a new book titled "So Ordered. An Originalist’s View Of The Constitution, The Court, And Our Country."
- Alito defines originalism as understanding Constitutional provisions by their public meaning at the time of adoption.
- He acknowledged the difficulty of applying originalism to modern issues like AI and surveillance, stating the need to apply established legal principles to new contexts.
- The leak of the Dobbs opinion was described as unprecedented and a cause for the Justices to become targets for assassination, with a near-miss for Brett Kavanaugh.
- Alito viewed the pandemic as a "stress test" for Constitutional rights, noting that some people were willing to "downgrade" rights like freedom of speech and religion.