• snooggums@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Originalism would be better named “selective originalism” because it cherry picks specific parts out of context and ignores the rest. A religion of legality.

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      6 months ago

      Exactly. It’s not a legal theory, just an smokescreen right-wing judges use when their fascist agenda happens to align with some twisted quasi-historical interpretation of the law.