Tag: Senate Judiciary Hearing
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The Best Thing One Can Say About Originalism Is That It’s Total, Utter Nonsense
Antonin Scalia — the King of Originalism — should have taken originalism to the grave with him. Not that the worms deserve either. Intellectually, originalism is the quintessential make-it-up-as-you-go-along, “White Guy” argument. “But the rules! But the rules!” says the one who wrote the rules, then broke them repeatedly then got upset when others threatened…