Some names and orgs that come to mind are Ilya Shapiro, Kristin Waggoner, Amy Swearer, Mark Paoletta, John Eastman, Carrie Severino, David Koprl, Adam Mortara, Heritage, ADF, NRA, FIRE, Becket Fund, and so on...
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And we can't ignore bad faith reaoning by the courts themselves‐James Ho, Matt Kacsmaryk, Kathryn Mizelle, Bill Pryor, Reed O'Connor and SCOTUS not least (as detailed by Senator Whitehouse [Knights-Errant] as well as others like Kyle Velte [The Supreme Court's Gaslight Docket]).
Originalism itself is, I would argue (as others have), a bad faith premise.
You no doubt have a view of academia where you encounter principled conservative academics who can and do argue positions based on well-articulated principles that are held regardless of the outcome they direct—
—but in the world where law and politics intertwine, it seems almost a rule for conservatives that principles bend in service to power. And that seems to me the definition of bad faith.
Your penultimate point was in some ways my main one in my original quote post. What I responded to was a broad critique of "the legal academy" that seemed untrue to my experience.
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You no doubt have a view of academia where you encounter principled conservative academics who can and do argue positions based on well-articulated principles that are held regardless of the outcome they direct—