#originalintent — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #originalintent, aggregated by home.social.
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"they are hewing to a kind of strict originalist understanding…"
"strict originalist understanding"
Sort of like some #US #Republicans and the US #Constitution
All with the #OriginalIntent and all
Until it no longer suits their agenda to care
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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
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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
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"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