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Federalist Radio Hour

’You're Wrong' With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 196: Mollie’s New Book ‘Alito’

Federalist Radio Hour

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway joins Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi to give the inside scoop on her newest book Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution and explain why she chose to report on Justice Samuel Alito. Mollie and David also discuss the book's bombshell revelations about the Dobbs v. Jackson leak and dive into other SCOTUS secrets.

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0:00.0

Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of Your Wrong with Molly Hemingway, editor-in-chief of the Federalist and David Harsani, senior writer at the Washington Examiner.

0:24.4

Just as a reminder, if you'd like to email the show, please do so at Radio at the Federalist.com.

0:31.1

Molly, we have another special episode this week.

0:35.0

Your book's out.

0:36.9

It's called Alito, the Justice, who reshaped the Supreme Court and restored

0:40.8

the Constitution. Congratulations. It's a fantastic book. Thank you very much. I look forward to diving into it

0:48.3

right now. And I guess I just want to start by asking you, why Alito? People love Clarence Thomas.

0:55.3

People, you know, there are other there are other justices, I think, within the conservative

0:59.4

movement at least that are that are often or quite beloved and have been for a long time.

1:04.0

Why Alito?

1:05.4

So I've always held pretty serious interest in the Supreme Court.

1:09.8

I'm one of those people who likes to read opinions and dissents when a big case comes down.

1:14.6

I've always been someone who wanted to go to law school.

1:18.6

That's not happening, particularly after this book, and I'll explain why in a second.

1:23.6

But I just enjoy the court. I enjoy the branches of government and studying them. But it was during

1:32.7

the writing of the Kavanaugh book, I co-wrote with Carrie Severino, Justice on Trial,

1:39.5

which was about the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and the future of the Supreme Court.

1:44.3

We interviewed close to 100 people,

1:48.1

some of them multiple times,

1:50.1

many of them justices,

1:52.9

and that was the period of time

1:56.5

where I realized, oh, wait,

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