Overview
- In a newly published interview, Justice Samuel Alito said he often wishes Antonin Scalia were still alive because “things are so different” since the justice’s 2016 death.
- Alito said his 2022 Dobbs opinion was indebted to Scalia’s originalism and that he learned from the model of Scalia’s Heller opinion.
- He added that he does not think Scalia would have written Dobbs very differently and that some of its language may reflect Scalia’s influence.
- Agreeing with a family remark relayed by the interviewer, Alito said Scalia would have been “appalled at so much” in recent years.
- The remarks were published by Politico Magazine in an interview conducted by James Rosen and were subsequently reported by other outlets.