Samuel Alito is, with Clarence Thomas, one of the two most conservative sitting(现任的) Supreme Court justices. In his 20 years on the highest bench(法官席、法院), he has reliably(可靠地、一贯地) voted for conservative positions—especially on social issues, criminal procedure, voting rights, discrimination, and religious liberty. He wrote the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturn(推翻、撤销)ed the constitutional right to abortion. During the second Trump administration, he has so far voted more often than any other justice to uphold its initiatives. And in speeches, Alito has taken an unusual step for a sitting justice: He has become an active participant in the culture wars(文化战争), opposing affirmative action(平权行动), progressive campus orthodoxy(正统观念), attacks on religious freedom, and hostility toward Judeo-Christian values(犹太-基督教价值观).
塞缪尔·阿利托与克拉伦斯·托马斯是最高法院现任大法官中最保守的两位。在最高法院的20年里，他始终如一地投票支持保守派立场——尤其在社会议题、刑事诉讼程序、投票权、歧视和宗教自由方面。他在多布斯诉杰克逊妇女健康组织案中撰写多数意见，推翻了宪法规定的堕胎权。在特朗普第二任期内，迄今为止，他比任何其他大法官都更频繁地投票支持其政策倡议。而且，阿利托在演讲中采取了现任大法官不同寻常的举动：他积极投身文化战争，反对平权行动、进步的校园正统观念、对宗教自由的攻击以及对犹太-基督教价值观的敌意。
Alito has now collected adaptations(改编本) of 19 talks (all but six of them from the past decade) in So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country. Many of the wide-ranging(广泛的) essays are charming and genial(亲切的、和蔼的), which will perhaps surprise those primed(使有准备的) to expect an acerbic(尖刻的), embattled(饱受困扰的、严阵以待的) style. He includes an ardent(热心的、狂热的) fan’s primer(入门指南) on baseball’s lessons for life and law, a tribute to the “long-term vision of national greatness” in the Gettysburg Address(葛底斯堡演说), and an appreciation of the “long, deep, and sometimes scarring experience” of religious liberty’s great defender Karol Wojtyla(卡罗尔·沃伊蒂瓦（教皇约翰·保罗二世）), before he became Pope John Paul II.
阿利托现在将19篇演讲改编后收录于《So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country》一书中（其中除六篇外均出自过去十年）。这些内容广泛的随笔大多迷人而亲切，这或许会让那些预期他会尖刻好斗的人感到意外。书中包括一位狂热棒球迷关于棒球对生活与法律启示的入门指南，对葛底斯堡演说中“国家伟大的长远愿景”的致敬，以及对宗教自由伟大捍卫者卡罗尔·沃伊蒂瓦（即后来的教皇约翰·保罗二世）那“漫长、深刻且有时留下创伤的经历”的赞赏。
As the subtitle suggests, the most important talks concern “originalism(原旨主义)”—the view that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its meaning at ratification(批准、正式通过). Originalism is the credo of the conservative legal movement that since the 1980s has traveled from obscurity to triumph, marked by the arrival of a Supreme Court supermajority that is dismantling the revolutionary progressivism of the Warren (1953–69) and Burger (1969–86) Courts.(原旨主义是保守派法律运动的信条，该运动自1980年代以来从默默无闻走向胜利，其标志是一个最高法院绝对多数派的到来，正在瓦解沃伦法院和伯格法院的革命性进步主义。) Yet Alito’s embrace of the originalist label is also likely to come as a surprise to people on the left and the right.
正如副标题所示，最重要的演讲涉及“原旨主义”——即宪法应按照批准时的含义来解释的观点。原旨主义是保守派法律运动的信条，该运动自1980年代以来从默默无闻走向胜利，其标志是一个最高法院绝对多数派的到来，正在瓦解沃伦法院（1953-69）和伯格法院（1969-86）的革命性进步主义。然而，阿利托对原旨主义标签的拥抱，也可能让左右两派人士感到意外。