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The Alito Burn Book

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Originalism Versus Textualism in the Justice Alito Interview

Justice Alito talks about cases that were just decided this term, not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's unusual. He says originalism is not a concept that has one specific definition and that applying that one specific definition sort of yields the correct legal outcome. Sarah Palin: I think we've kind of done a disservice in originalism land by sort of arguing, well, wait, originalism is the means for achieving the objectively correct result.

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