Thread by @ThinkJoMice

"Originalism and Textualism" dooms the U.S. and each of us individually to constant social unrest as basic activities of personal life not specifically identified in the Constitution will lose constitutional protection going forward and

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the activities will be lawful or criminalized with no uniformity based on a myriad of variable state laws

The social unrest will be "constant" because politicians will raise money, advocates for and against these activities will be demonstrating,

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and counter-demonstrating, sadly often with violent confrontations between the groups all because six justices in RED ROBES feel that the Constitution should be analyzed based on the meaning of words intentionally written broadly 235 years ago

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As a child/teenager of the 60's, I was taught in high school and college that the Constitution was a "Living Document" whose rights and liberties expanded in a free society due to astute Justices acting to restrain federal and state overreach

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I remember studying Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, and Earl Warren in my 8th-grade civics class

I was just beginning high school when LBJ who my father supported, nominated Thurgood Marshall to sit on the SCOTUS as the first black Justice,

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but I knew that Marshall was the lead NAACP counsel who argued before the Warren Court in Brown v. Bd of Education securing the ruling: "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"

A ruling that expanded individual rights, acted

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to restrain the state's overreach and showed the Constitution to be a "Living Document"

It is shocking that these Justices fail to employ a judicial philosophy embraced by Jefferson and carved into the walls of his memorial

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