Alito Teaches The Right How To Have Principles And Win At The Same Time |
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Alito Teaches The Right How To Have Principles And Win At The Same Time
In Alito, Hemingway paints a picture of a justice who understands the greatest constitution in the world is only as good as those who steward it.
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The prevailing question of the past year — which will likely prove to be the prevailing question of our generation — is this: What does it mean to be an American? Is America a transferable idea, or a people?
This debate reached the U.S. Supreme Court directly earlier this month, when the court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara. The Trump administration argues that being born to a foreign trespasser or surrogate baby-carrier on U.S. soil does not make someone an American. The ACLU and its backers in the media argue that it does.
Much of the argument centered on a highly technical debate over the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s description of a natural-born citizen as “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. Questioning the lawyer for the ACLU, Justice Samuel Alito drew the conversation into the real world, asking if a boy “born here to an Iranian father who has entered the country illegally” with “a duty to provide military service to the Iranian government” would not be considered “subject” to the foreign government of Iran under the Civil Rights Act of 1866, a key contemporary text of the 14th Amendment.
That ability to interpret the law more clearly by understanding its application in the real world is a key strength of Alito’s, as personably illustrated in a new biography of the justice by The Federalist’s own Mollie Hemingway.
In Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution, Hemingway acquaints the reader with the most underrated justice, his life story, and his unflinching jurisprudence. From his Italian-American upbringing in a New Jersey manufacturing community to his prominent love of baseball, Alito is a walking American Dream. As the coalition-building justice who united the majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, he is a brilliant jurist. As one of the chief targets of attacks from........