Noah Feldman: Secret audio of Alito isn’t the smoking gun liberals think

Noah Feldman: Secret audio of Alito isn’t the smoking gun liberals think

It’s hard to imagine a clearer violation of journalistic ethics than pretending to hold beliefs you don’t, asking Supreme Court justices if they agree, and surreptitiously recording their answers at a no-media dinner. The novelty of the stunt, however, shouldn’t distract us from the real takeaway, which is precisely that the recordings yielded nothing we didn’t already know. The key conclusions are that Justice Samuel Alito is a religious man; h…