Remembering the Originalist in Chief

Scalia: Supreme Court Years, 1986–2001, by James Rosen (Regnery, 528 pp., $45)

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Veteran journalist James Rosen has released the second volume of his three-volume biography of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. As with the first one, this book does justice to a towering jurist and brings to life his vitality and love for the law.

Rosen’s easy, readable style belies a rare skill: the ability to grip the reader as much with heady matters of the justice’s jurisprudential philosophy as with his colorful persona, his deep friendships, and his striking rivalries. Rosen gives us a winning narrative not only about a great man but about his ideas too.

Eric Tung

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Eric Tung

Eric Tung is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia from 2012 to 2013 and for Justice Neil Gorsuch from 2017 to 2018.

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