I worked for Justice Alito. What I saw up close shatters the media smear

Critics of Supreme Court justices frequently resort to unfair caricatures of those justices that, the critics hope, will generate clicks and likes. If you happened to see a recent hit piece on Justice Alito, for example, you would read that he is "unhappy," "aggrieved," and "wronged." And he, like the others, is expected to endure these attacks in silence. For, if the justices speak up, their critics then castigate them as thin-skinned and—conveniently—unhappy, aggrieved, and wronged.

This vicious game is nothing new—but...