gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months agoHow Originalism Ate the Law: America is captive to a legal theory that dictates our laws on guns, abortion, and so much more. We need to act.slate.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoExactly. It’s not a legal theory, just an smokescreen right-wing judges use when their fascist agenda happens to align with some twisted quasi-historical interpretation of the law.
Exactly. It’s not a legal theory, just an smokescreen right-wing judges use when their fascist agenda happens to align with some twisted quasi-historical interpretation of the law.