Among Supreme Court justices nominated by Republican presidents in recent decades, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia are cited most often by conservative commentators as influential giants on the court.
But there’s another justice who warrants equal attention, says Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist.
Justice Samuel Alito, a 20-year veteran on the court, “is behind some of the most important work that the court has done,” she says.
She recently authored the first biography on him titled “Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution.”
In particular, she details the pivotal role Alito played in undoing one of the most consequential decisions of the Supreme Court—Roe v. Wade—and returning the regulation of abortion to individual states.
For the book, Hemingway interviewed almost one hundred people who have known Alito throughout his life, including his colleagues on the court.
In our interview, she takes us behind the scenes of the Supreme Court, some of its most momentous recent decisions, and how she believes it was transformed in the last half-century by justices who had a more progressive interpretation of the law and the Constitution.
I also get her take on escalating political violence against conservative figures—from Supreme Court justices to President Donald Trump—and the recent Department of Justice 11-count indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The indictment alleges the group deceived donors and funneled money to the leaders of the very extremist groups they claimed to fight.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times and The Thinking Conservative.
