A sobering read: @ProfMMurray on what the #KBJ confirmation hearings presage about the coming conservative jihad to strip us of our rights, backed by a court majority that scoffs at precedents… washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
A clip-and a reminder that the only federal rights enumerated in the original U.S. constitution belonged to land-owning white men. Women had none. Black people were slaves. The indigenous, disabled, LGBT etc had zip. So “originalism” essentially means states can exclude them all. 
That logic could undo everything from Brown v Board to Loving, to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts to Roe to the rulings affirming legalized contraception, same sex marriage, affirmative action, and on and on. Hard to argue that’s not the slope we’re on. One more clip:
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