Recently published, by Mollie Hemingway: Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution (Basic Liberty 2026). Here is the book description from Amazon:
Justice Samuel Alito, the unflinching author of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, is so influential that many now refer to the “Alito Court.” But his powerful role, long overlooked, has aroused the ire of activists outraged by the emergence of a cohesive conservative majority on the court.
In this first comprehensive study of Alito, Mollie Hemingway explains how his common sense and prosecutorial experience, combined with fearless intellectual rigor, have shaped the man and the jurist. Through the lens of Alito’s judicial career, Hemingway provides a fresh perspective on the political, social, and legal battles that have unsettled the Supreme Court and the nation.
From menacing mobs encamped outside the justices’ homes to senators bellowing violent threats on the steps of the court itself, Alito offers a captivating insider account of the Supreme Court under unprecedented attack in a polarized age.
Few would have predicted that the modest and reserved judge who joined the high court with little fanfare two decades ago would lead the originalists to their astonishing ascendancy, but Hemingway’s compelling portrait reveals an intellect and character that make such leadership seem inevitable.
Via Mark Pulliam’s review at Law & Liberty, which begins:
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has served on the US Supreme Court for 20 years, but has never gotten the attention—or credit—he deserves. Alito was nominated to the Court by President George W. Bush in 2005 to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of the moderate Sandra Day O’Connor, after Bush initially selected Harriet Miers, his little-known White House counsel, for the slot. (Miers was quickly forced to withdraw due to broad-based opposition over her lack of qualifications.) …
Alito long labored in the shadow of extrovert Antonin Scalia and jurisprudential maverick Clarence Thomas, who has been credited with rediscovering the “lost Constitution.” Unlike some of his attention-seeking colleagues, such as the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg (who was celebrated by her acolytes as the “Notorious RBG”) and Grammys-attending Ketanji Brown Jackson, Alito judiciously maintains a low profile. He may be the least publicly recognizable justice—the opposite of a celebrity. …
In any event, Alito’s lack of public recognition is about to change. Mollie Hemingway, well-known center-right journalist and best-selling co-author of an excellent account of the tortuous confirmation process inflicted on Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, Justice on Trial, has written the first biography of Alito, entitled Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution. In this decidedly friendly book, Hemingway makes the case that Alito is one of the most consequential jurists in the twenty-first century—the most consistent, and influential, conservative voice on the Court.
For other 2026 Alito books, see here (on Peter Canellos’ recently published biography) and here (on Justice Alito forthcoming book).
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