• snooggums@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Originalism is the legal equivalent of people picking and choosing single sentences out of religious texts out of context.

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      The term makes sense if you understand it is referring to the how the interpretation of the Constitution is brand new (“original”) for each judgement.