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The surprising conservative backlash against Justice Alito

Justice Samuel Alito’s new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, isn’t going to set the world on fire with its bold new ideas. It’s mostly a collection of Alito’s old speeches. But if the book treads familiar ground, the reception to it among writers who share Alito’s […]

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