“Who Funds That?” Episode 3: Justice Samuel Alito (with Mollie Hemingway)

When conservatives wax poetic about their favorite Supreme Court justices from what one might call the “Federalist Society era” of Republican appointments, Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia take precedence. The oldest may prefer the late William Rehnquist, for a time the lone “originalist” on the court; the youngest may prefer Neil Gorsuch, the libertarian radical appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017. But today’s guest argues for Samuel Alito, appointed as George W. Bush’s second choice for the vacancy created by the retirement of Sandra Day O’Connor in 2005, as perhaps the most consequential of them all. Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, joins us to discuss her latest book: Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution.
 

 

• Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution
• Capital Research Center: Alito, the fulcrum of the conservative Court
• InfluenceWatch: Demand Justice
• InfluenceWatch: ProPublica
• National Review: Brett Kavanaugh’s Would-Be Assassin Gets Time Off for Trans Behavior