Justice Brennan once described originalism as “arrogance cloaked as humility” in the way it imputed its own biases to the framers. But it’s even dumber. It’s legal New Criticism- reading text without context. And embarrassingly amateurish history. Laughable if not for the harm it has caused.
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jamelle
1) contemporary originalist methodology involves use of specialized dictionaries and recourse to legal esoterica to find ways to make words mean the opposite of what they appear to say
2) really tired of strangers thinking they can see into the depths of my soul after reading a social media post!
2) really tired of strangers thinking they can see into the depths of my soul after reading a social media post!
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