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@heidilifeldman

Just going to drop my pinned-post boilerplate from yesterday into this:

The #SupremeCourt is working exactly as #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety intended

The mask is off

All that #Textualism and #Originalism and high-minded-sounding #OriginalIntent schtick was a premeditated #Federalist / #GOP lie

#SCOTUS is now situational, relative, and expedient in one direction only

It's far right SCOTUS #ActivistJudges all the way down from here on out

@chrisgeidner

Just going to drop my pinned-post boilerplate from yesterday into this:

The #SupremeCourt is working exactly as #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety intended

The mask is off

All that #Textualism and #Originalism and high-minded-sounding #OriginalIntent schtick was a premeditated #Federalist / #GOP lie

#SCOTUS is now situational, relative, and expedient in one direction only

It's far right SCOTUS #ActivistJudges all the way down from here on out

@KarlBode

"I 100% believe this is a fatal gut shot to any sort of coherent, stable federal governance"

The #SupremeCourt is working exactly as #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety intended

The mask is off

All that #Textualism and #Originalism and high-minded-sounding #OriginalIntent schtick was a premeditated #Federalist / #GOP lie

#SCOTUS is now situational, relative, and expedient in one direction only

It's far right SCOTUS #ActivistJudges all the way down from here on out

@w7voa

Ancient Twitter boilerplate:

"Remember all that #Constitutional #Textualism and #Originalism crap?

All lies

The #GOP cares about the US #Constitution about as much as it cares about the #Bible

Find one passage they need right now

Misinterpret it

Ignore all the rest

Throw that interpretation away when it's no longer needed

And basically do the bidding of #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety "

@tristansnell

Remember all that #Constitutional #Textualism and #Originalism crap?

All lies

The #GOP cares about the US #Constitution about as much as it cares about the #Bible

Find one passage they need right now

Misinterpret it

Ignore all the rest

Throw that interpretation away when it's no longer needed

And basically do the bidding of #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety

@DrJackBrown

Remember all that #Constitutional #Textualism and #Originalism crap?

All lies

The #GOP cares about the US #Constitution about as much as it cares about the #Bible

Find one passage they need right now

Misinterpret it

Ignore all the rest

Throw that interpretation away when it's no longer needed

And basically do the bidding of #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety

@GottaLaff @JaneDoeTheFirst 3) never in my wildest dreams until #KarlRove and #NewtGingrich with assistance from #rushlimbaugh started taking the #GOP down the rabbit hole of name-calling, misinformation, disinformation regarding our government agencies and calling Clinton names I thought were treasonous and tuned them out forever until I realizing they and #LeonardLeo were playing the long game with the #FederalistSociety and judges. #DemocracySuffered

Will Trump provoke a crisis of legitimacy for the US supreme court?

#Originalism is a recent contrivance, patched together as part of the “gameplan”, as Trump’s court whisperer, the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo, describes it, of the capture of the courts to entrench the right’s agenda beyond the threat of adverse political tides for generations to come.

#Textualism is the sister doctrine of originalism, providing snatches of text from the constitution divorced from social and legislative context as if in scriptural fundamentalism to undergird the reversal of rights. It claims that to interpret a law, a judge may examine the plain meaning of its text but nothing else. It works hand in hand with originalism to exclude inconvenient portions of the historical record from judicial consideration.

But now this politicized jurisprudence has turned on its inventors.

If ever there is a legal ruling of ironclad constitutional reasoning that can be defended on originalist and textual grounds it is in Anderson v Griswold, the decision issued last week by the Colorado supreme court.

The decision holds that Trump engaged in insurrection on 6 January 2021, and that he is therefore barred for running for president under section three of the 14th amendment.

The conundrum for the supreme court is that it can rescue Trump only by shredding originalism and textualism
#fedsoc #leonardleo #14thamendment #insurrection

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/26/trump-us-supreme-court-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other