CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY OCTOBER 8, 2026
ASSOCIATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO HAS BEEN MAKING THE ROUNDS OF CABLE TV CHANNELS AND NEWSPAPERS, PLUGGING HIS NEW BOOK: “SO ORDERED: AN ORIGINALIST’S VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE COURT AND OUR COUNTRY.”
JUSTICE ALITO IS IN LINE WITH THE LATE ANTONIN SCALIA WHO ALSO BELIEVED THE FOUNDERS WERE BRILLIANT MEN WHO ESTABLISHED A FORM OF GOVERNMENT UNIQUE IN THE WORLD THAT HAS LASTED 250 YEARS.
THE BOOK, NOTES THE WASHINGTON TIMES, IS A COLLECTION OF ALITO’S SPEECHES. IT TRACKS THE EMERGENCE OF ORIGINAL JUDICIAL PHILOSOPHY AND DEFENDS IT AGAINST OTHER APPROACHES TO JUDGING: LIKE MODERN INTERPRETATIONS BY LIBERALS AND SOCIALISTS WHO WANT TO USE THE FOUNDING DOCUMENT TO ADVANCE THEIR SECULAR AGENDAS AND TRANSFORM THE COUNTRY INTO SOMETHING THE FOUNDERS NEVER INTENDED.
THE RULING THAT ALLOWED SAME—SEX MARRIAGE WAS QUITE FORTHCOMING: “NO ONE IN 1868 THOUGHT THAT THE INTEREST THAT PROTECTED BY THE 14TH AMENDMENT INCLUDED THE LIBERTY TO MARRY A PERSON OF THE OPPOSITE SEX.”
ALITO SAYS HE IS NOT AGITATING FOR IT TO BE OVERTURNED. “I DON’T WANT TO EVEN HINT THAT IT SHOULD BE OVERTURNED SINCE A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE WE ADOPTED IT.”
THE BOOK IS AN INSIGHT INTO THE MIND OF ONE JUSTICE AND SOME OF THR CONTROVERSIAL CASES ON WHICH HE HAD HAD TO RULE. I’M CAL THOMAS
