Samuel Alito could give Trump another Supreme Court pick

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(Salon) Samuel Alito, a suspected leaker of the Dobbs and Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decisions, wine aficionado and far-right flag waver, has a new book coming this fall.

Ordinarily, a Supreme Court justice’s book is an opportunity to line their pockets with a hefty advance, enjoy the perks of a lecture tour and sit for gentle interviews with hand–picked partisans who gullibly swallow the usual line about how they’re students of the Constitution, not robed, opportunistic hacks.

Yet The Nation’s Elie Mystal noticed something unusual about the publication date of Alito’s forthcoming doorstopper “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and the Country.” It’s scheduled to hit bookstores on Oct. 6, the second day of the Court’s 2026-27 term. Alito, whose appreciation for private jet travel is well-established, would ordinarily be due at his day job.

Unless, as Mystal suggested, the justice plans to retire. .......................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/02/19/samuel-alito-could-give-trump-another-supreme-court-pick/