Justice Alito on Sports Betting, Law Reviews, and the Supreme Court

This is the second half of my interview with Justice Samuel Alito, as promised. You can read the first part here, in which we discussed originalism, baseball, and the current hostile environment for Supreme Court justices, among other topics. In part two, we discuss the proper qualifications for justices, whether he regrets any of his decisions, when he reads law review articles, and what worries him about the future.

There were, of course, many topics we didn’t discuss, including Dobbs, leaks, ethics, recusals, and retirement. My philosophy of interviews is that I don’t bother asking questions that have already been answered, or that aren’t likely to get an answer. So, I didn’t bother asking things that are already answered in Alito’s published opinions, or in his book. Alito told Bloomberg all he was likely to say about his recusal in the Suncor case. And his interview last week with Jan Crawford of CBS covered a lot of ground that would have been redundant to retread.

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This is the second half of my interview with Justice Samuel Alito, as promised. You can read the first part here, in which we discussed originalism, baseball, and the current hostile environment for Supreme Court justices, among other topics. In part two, we discuss the proper qualifications for justices, whether he regrets any of his decisions, when he reads law review articles, and what worries him about the future.

There were, of course, many topics we didn’t discuss, including Dobbs, leaks, ethics, recusals, and retirement. My philosophy of interviews is that I don’t bother asking questions that have already been answered, or that aren’t likely to get an answer. So, I didn’t bother asking things that are already answered in Alito’s published opinions, or in his book. Alito told Bloomberg all he was likely to say about his recusal in the Suncor case. And his interview last week with Jan Crawford of CBS covered a lot of ground that would have been redundant to retread.