My originalism hypocrisy argument in @politico:
"The Senate GOP used Trump to fill the federal bench urgently with ostensible originalists. But when the rule of law is now on the line, they effectively voted 44 to 6 to disqualify originalism itself."
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"The Senate GOP used Trump to fill the federal bench urgently with ostensible originalists. But when the rule of law is now on the line, they effectively voted 44 to 6 to disqualify originalism itself."
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2/ "Along with Trump, originalism was on trial this week in the Senate. The point of originalism—and I say this as an originalist legal scholar—is that our Constitution is not supposed to be a wordy document narrowly fixing every point of law...
3/ "but a framework that depends upon historical context to find meaning and purpose... Contradicting the arguments they conveniently invoke for judicial appointments, the vast majority of Republican Senators this week ignored the whole principle of originalism.
4/ @RepRaskin @RepJoeNeguse @davidcicilline proved that impeachment from its origins applied to ex-officials.
"Republicans didn’t just get their history wrong: They imposed their own preferred meaning on the Constitution, following partisanship rather than historical evidence."
"Republicans didn’t just get their history wrong: They imposed their own preferred meaning on the Constitution, following partisanship rather than historical evidence."
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