Originalism would be better named “selective originalism” because it cherry picks specific parts out of context and ignores the rest. A religion of legality.
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.
I’d like to see them reduce corporations down to what the founding fathers intended. Which is allowing them to form to build something that benefits the entire public, like bridges, their ownership transparent and funding traceable and then immediately dissolved upon completion of the project
Originalism would be better named “selective originalism” because it cherry picks specific parts out of context and ignores the rest. A religion of legality.
In other words, fundamentalism.
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.
I’d like to see them reduce corporations down to what the founding fathers intended. Which is allowing them to form to build something that benefits the entire public, like bridges, their ownership transparent and funding traceable and then immediately dissolved upon completion of the project