"The most bankrupt kind of originalism."
Tied for 1st w/every other kind of originalism. This was always the play with that ideology & anyone thought otherwise is a rube.
Listen to @fivefourpod.bsky.social episodes on the Federalist Society if you want to know the political origins of this shit.
Tied for 1st w/every other kind of originalism. This was always the play with that ideology & anyone thought otherwise is a rube.
Listen to @fivefourpod.bsky.social episodes on the Federalist Society if you want to know the political origins of this shit.
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Mark Joseph Stern
I find this so ugly and pernicious. These two aren't pursuing principled, independent scholarship. They're racing to build intellectual scaffolding for Trump's lawless order by skimming the history books and cherry-picking quotes out of context. The most intellectually bankrupt form of originalism.
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