LECTURE - A Conversation with Justice Samuel Alito - The Honorable Samuel Alito and John G. Malcolm

The Dobbs leak made those of us who I’m the Vice President of the Institute for Con- were thought to be in the majority in sup- stitutional Government and also the Director of port of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination. [...] And I couldn’t help making a contrast between some of the worst of what I saw on the campus and the good sense and decency of some of the people back in my own community.”2 Can you explain what you meant by that and how it formed your thinking? Justice Alito: The specific things I was thinking about were aspects of the anti-war movement. [...] So why did I choose the Phillies over the Yankees in the middle of the 1950s when the Yankees always won and the Phillies never did? The answer is, I don’t know. [...] versus Stevens14 case, in which the Court struck down a federal law that criminalized the production of so-called animal crush videos; Snyder versus Phelps,15 in which the Court said that the First Amendment protected the rights of members of the Westboro Baptist Church to protest and say some rather vile things at the funerals of soldiers who’d been killed in action; United States versus Alvarez,. [...] The traditional theory has been that the judge in the statutory case is the faithful agent of the legislative body, and an agent has to be mindful of, has to heed the intent of, the principal.