Invisible Constitution and Missing Pounds Surface at Alito Speech
Perhaps there’s something in the water at the U.S. Supreme Court.
That’s one explanation offered by Above the Law for Justice Samuel A. Alito’s new younger and thinner appearance. Another possibility is Alito’s rumored exercise regimen imposed by his wife.
Alito spoke last week at a Federalist Society dinner, where he emphasized the need to interpret “what the law is and not what it should be,” according to an account at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.
Blogger David Lat of Above the Law attended Alito’s speech and visited with him beforehand. “Being on the Supreme Court appears to agree with the justice; he seems to look younger and thinner with each new public appearance,” Lat writes.
“Back in 2005, when he was nominated to the Supreme Court shortly after golden boy John G. Roberts, Justice Alito was viewed by some as a less dashing version of JGR; but SAA now seems to be growing more handsome, while JGR is aging a bit (although still very good-looking, as we can attest from a recent visit to the court).”
Alito made some “snarky references” to two new books by liberal law professors during his speech, according to the ATL account. They are Laurence Tribe’s The Invisible Constitution and Cass Sunstein’s A Constitution of Many Minds.
With book titles like these, Alito said, it’s not surprising if liberals place less emphasis on the words and original meaning of the Constitution, ATL reports. “I will have to stick to intrepreting the principles of the Constitution that are visible to the naked eye,” Alito said.
