I had the pleasure of hearing Justice Alito speak at the Federalist Society Convention a few years back; I didn’t make it this year, but apparently he was again both entertaining and insightful, and Above the Law has a recap. H/T. A highlight:
Referring to [then-Judge Sotomayor’s] opening statement, Alito said, “There was not a word in that statement that was controversial, but that’s not how it was received by her progressive audience.” He cited as an example a post on the Federalist Society’s Web site by Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman, in which Seidman wrote, “I was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor’s testimony today. If she was not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally unqualified.”
“And those were the words of one of her supporters,” Alito said. “I had a lot of opponents, but I never had any supporters like that.”