National Review has posted the first half of Dan McLaughlin's interview with Justice Amy Coney Barrett about her new book and other matters. The interview covers a range of topics, including originalism and the interim orders docket, among other things. This bit on originalism and "common good constitutionalism" seemed to be of particular interest.

NR: . . . We have now four Gen X justices, [the others being] Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Jackson. Our generation is actually the first generation to have come of age as lawyers with Scalia opinions, the Federalist Society, and originalism and textualism as serious arguments in the law schools. I had Justice Scalia come to one of my classes once, and debate one of our professors. So, we came of age with that — do you see any difference in

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