Justice Alito is waiting on one 30-year-old case before he calls it quits
Alito Jr. won’t retire until the Supreme Court overturns a roughly 30-year-old religious liberty precedent. So says Mollie Hemingway, author of the recently released biography “Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution” (Basic Liberty). Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist online magazine, recently held a Q&A in Arlington, Virginia, where she offered her prediction.
- ▪Alito Jr. won’t retire until the Supreme Court overturns a roughly 30-year-old religious liberty precedent.
- ▪So says Mollie Hemingway, author of the recently released biography “Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution” (Basic Liberty).
- ▪Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist online magazine, recently held a Q&A in Arlington, Virginia, where she offered her prediction.
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Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. won’t retire until the Supreme Court overturns a roughly 30-year-old religious liberty precedent. So says Mollie Hemingway, author of the recently released biography “Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution” (Basic Liberty). Ms. Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist online magazine, recently held a Q&A in Arlington, Virginia, where she offered her prediction. “I am just going to speculate here: I personally believe, if you study his jurisprudence going back to when he was a federal judge, he cares deeply about Employment Division v. Smith,” the conservative columnist and commentator said.
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