• snooggums
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    7 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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      7 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.

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      7 months ago

      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

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    7 months ago

    The funny thing is that Jefferson and other ‘Founding Fathers’ thought that change was good and the dead shouldn’t rule the living.

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      7 months ago

      And apparently assumed that the constitution should be re-written every 17 years or so. That’s the ‘constitutional convention’ ploy, which I’m not so sure it it’s a good idea or not, at this time. smh. we’re so fecked. wait, where’s I put my optimism… it’s around here somewhere.

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        7 months ago

        MAGoo logic.

        America needs a Constitutional Convention because the world has changed as we must change with it!

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        The Convention delegates shouldn’t be chosen by a direct popular vote because the Founding Fathers wanted us to live as States!

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    7 months ago

    All my homies hate zombie constitutionalism.

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    7 months ago

    Originalism has been dead since the Liberals noticed that it was dammed useful.

    The Court now uses Historical Practice and Tradition.