Former law clerks to the late Justice Antonin Scalia gathered at a Federalist Society conference in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to lavish praise on their former boss, and a recently-published compilation to the justice’s public speeches.
The book, “Scalia Speaks: Reflects on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived,” has elicited praise from many quarters since its publication earlier this year. The justice’s son and three of his former clerks shared personal anecdotes and discussed their favorite speeches from the book during Saturday’s event.
The panel, moderated by Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, included Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the 7th Circuit, Professor Rachel Barkow of New York University School of Law, Christopher Scalia, the justice’s son, and Edward Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Scalia and Whelan co-edited the book.
“We thought we had a pretty good idea of what we were getting into when we started reading through the speeches, but there were a handful of very big surprises,” Scalia said of assembling the volume.
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