Commentary: How 'originalism' Became the prevailing view at the US Supreme Court

It is easy to take for granted that the current Supreme Court has a majority of committed originalists. But only four decades ago, such a court would have been unimaginable. Who deserves credit for this remarkable change?

“If we can envision a Mt. Rushmore of originalism,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a new book that we co-edited, “the three visages we would see carved in stone are those of Robert Bork, Edwin Meese III, and Antonin Scalia.”