#Originalism

I finally got around to watching this panel: https://youtu.be/5L6WlxTYvMY @ccpecknold's opening statement is a brilliant summary of De Koninck on the common good. The questions by @RyanTAnd are also very good
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1 The passing away of Justice Ginsburg #RBG and the prospect of decades of an alt-right domination of #SCOTUS under the mantle of 'the rule of law' will shed light
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: In a 2019 dissent, Amy Coney Barrett said the Constitution protects the right of non-violent felons to own guns, but does NOT protect their right to vote.Gun ownership is
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Answering "We were founded as a republic, not a democracy. We are a republic, not a democracy," are like a libertarian manifestos.There is truth to the statement that we were
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After the recent American Mind piece on abandoning conservatism for counterrevolution, I did a little digging on conservative use of the term counterrevolution. (A thread) 1/ The piece in the
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Okay. With this Amy Coney Barrett farce, we need to examine how the GOP and evangelical Right merged to protect white supremacy and aristocratic control, resulting in Donald Trump and
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The Senate will vote later today to confirm Amy Coney Barrett as the sixth right-wing justice on a Supreme Court that is already historically pro-corporate.This is just the latest in
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Once upon a time, GOP actually *believed* in "law & order": as Nixon's crimes exposed, support dropped. But no longer!Why? Asymmetric polarization. What's that mean? How did it happen? Funny
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the number of times i've just yelled "fuck off" and I've been watching this literally for 6 minutes. who gives a cinnamon toast fuck about how many kids she has
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Lindsey Graham and Dianne Feinstein chat before the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court hearings begin. .@LindseyGrahamSC notes that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia were confirmed near unanimously and laments
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(Thread) It Was All A Lie, Part II read @stuartpsteven’s book, and I’m ready with a Twitter Book Report.There’s so much to talk about with this book, I’ll have to
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SCOTUS hearings Day 2 is underway: Lindsey Graham opens by calling Obamacare a "disaster" for South Carolina. He says they don't want Obamacare, they want "South Carolinacare." Lindsey Graham makes
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"Patriotic education" is Stephen Miller's fascism + Mike Pence's fundamentalism. Some years ago, I took a course in "patriotic education" for my book THE FAMILY. I spent a season reading
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Amy Coney Barrett on originalism: "That means that I interpret the Constitution as a law... I understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified
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Another blow to the Fox-Trump-GOP Evangelical base.Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion restrictions https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-louisiana-abortion-strikes-down/ via @CBSNews I don't think the MAGA people will be
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THREAD. With the protests against stay-at-home orders mushrooming across the U.S., journalists and pundits are making comparisons to the Tea Party protests of 2009-2010. It's worth revisiting what many historians
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