I’ve written twice in the past week —- here and here — about the question of Judge Samuel Alito’s apparent shadow libertarian views on some issues, especially concerning the First Amendment. Today, UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh has an article at the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal where he characterizes Alito as “free speech libertarian.”
Money quote:
What do we see here in Judge Alito? Not an O’Connor, Scalia or Rehnquist; rather, a judge with his own mix of conservatism, libertarianism and egalitarianism, a cautious jurist who seems likely to move the court toward a slightly more claimant-friendly view of free speech and religious freedom–and a slightly more government-friendly view of the Establishment Clause.
Read the whole thing.
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