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2 weeks ago, Justice Alito wrote the following in his dissent to the Court's landmark decision on LGBTQ workplace rights & protections:
"Our duty is to interpret statutory terms to mean what they
conveyed to reasonable people at the time they were written.”
"Reasonable people."
"Our duty is to interpret statutory terms to mean what they
conveyed to reasonable people at the time they were written.”
"Reasonable people."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..."
"...our duty is to interpret statutory terms to mean what they conveyed to reasonable people at the time they were written..."
"...our duty is to interpret statutory terms to mean what they conveyed to reasonable people at the time they were written..."
As we begin the #July4th weekend, a reminder that both "originalism" *and* "textualism" are concepts created by white male jurists, in defense of laws that — in America — were almost exclusively written by white men.
