SCOTUS Blog··Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 9:30 AM

Two cheers for “insecure originalism”

In his new book, Justice Samuel Alito takes aim at what he calls judicial “insecurity,” or a judge’s self-conscious worry that he might be advancing his own policy preferences under the guise of impartial adjudication. “Twenty-first century originalists,” he argues, “should shed this insecure mindset.”

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