Here Are 8 Killer Quotes From Justice Alito’s Latest Sit-Down Interview
By: Shawn Fleetwood
June 19, 2025‘We are not supposed to do what is popular, we’re supposed to do what is right,’ said Justice Samuel Alito.While the Supreme Court’s 2024-2025 term is winding down, Associate Justice Samuel Alito is not.
On June 6, the George W. Bush appointee participated in a sit-down interview with the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson. Released on Wednesday, the roughly hour-long exchange covered a variety of issues relevant America’s ongoing political discourse.
From the importance of maintaining free speech in society to the weaponization of nationwide injunctions, here are the most insightful remarks from one of the Supreme Court’s most senior justices.
History of OriginalismAfter alluding to the activist nature of the Supreme Court under former Chief Justice Earl Warren, Alito provided a brief overview of the originalist movement that sprung up in the years following. He specifically highlighted the views of intellectual thought leaders such as former Justice Antonin Scalia, former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, and Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese — all of whom he credited as being the movement’s “three pioneers.”
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