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Liberal Currents"Dworkin’s progressive, liberal and inspiring approach to the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> offers a constructive and systematic alternative to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a> and common good constitutionalism which is badly needed now." (from 2024) <a href="https://www.liberalcurrents.com/reintroducing-ronald-dworkin/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.liberalcurrents.com/reintroducing-ronald-dworkin/</a>

FinchHaven infosec<a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Nonilex</a> "who previously asked for the hearing to be postponed until after the election that Trump maintained he would win. After making that request, the judge said Trump could NOT now credibly say that winning the election makes him <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/immune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immune</a> from <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/sentencing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sentencing</a>."The problem here is that this is exactly how and why the current <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> was constructed by <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LeonardLeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeonardLeo</a> and the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FederalistSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalistSociety</a>Points of law, the entire logic of existing law, are meaninglessThe Supreme Court of the United States exists only to do what is needed to advance the far-right agendaAll references to <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Textualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Textualism</a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Originalism</a> and the meaning of the law as it exists are a fraud Not that any of that matters

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️NYT columnist David French [Alliance Defending Freedom] <a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112040385795781852" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112040385795781852</a>* served as senior counsel Alliance Defending Freedom * co-author of Nashville Statement, affirming immorality of homosexuality or transgenderism<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DavidFrench" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DavidFrench</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NYT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AllianceDefendingFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllianceDefendingFreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ADF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ADF</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChristianRight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiLGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antiLGBT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transphobia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homophobia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump2</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USconstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USconstitution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Christofascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Catholicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Catholicism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transgenocide</a>

Will BerardIf <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> is so into <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a>, maybe they should repeal ALL amendments?IDK, just trying to help.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ConLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConLaw</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@LeftistLawyer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@LeftistLawyer</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@MissGayle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@MissGayle</a> The concept of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a> is modern for specific reasons, none of them virtuous: <a href="https://mastodon.world/@paninid/112701508554411787" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.world/@paninid/112701508554411787</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Leonard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Leo</a> was born on Long Island in the mid-sixties. When he was only a toddler, he lost his father — a pastry chef — to cancer. At the age of five, his mother remarried, and the Leos moved to New Jersey, where he attended Monroe Township High School. Leo was chosen as the “Most Likely to Succeed” a distinction he shared with classmate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sally</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schroeder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Schroeder</a>, his future wife. In the yearbook, the two were shown sitting next to each other, holding wads of cash and with dollar signs painted on their glasses. He was so effective at raising money for his senior prom that his classmates nicknamed him the “Moneybags Kid.”  Throughout his life, he remained steeped in the deep Catholicism of his grandfather, who had emigrated to the United States from Italy as a teenager; his grandparents attended Mass daily, and encouraged the young Leonard to follow their lead. After high school, Leo went to Cornell University, studying under a group of conservative academics in the university’s department of government and with the wider national backdrop of iconoclastic scholars led by Yale University’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Robert</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bork</a> and the University of Chicago’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Antonin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Antonin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scalia</a>, who were building the case for a novel legal doctrine known as <a href="https://c.im/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a>. He got a series of internships in Washington, D.C., during the final years of the Reagan administration, then returned to Cornell to join the law school, where in 1989 he founded the local chapter of a student organization called the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Federalist</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Society</a>. That group had been set up by three conservative-leaning students from Yale, Harvard, and Chicago seven years earlier as a way of challenging what they saw as the dominance of liberal ideology at the country’s law schools. After graduating, Leo married Sally, who had been raised as a Protestant but who used to go to Catholic Mass five times every weekend because she played the organ. She decided to convert not long before her marriage. The couple moved back to Washington, where Leo clerked for a judge on the court of appeals and became close with another appellate judge who had recently been appointed to the D.C. circuit — a man from Georgia called <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Clarence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thomas</a>, who had toyed with becoming a Catholic priest. Despite being ten years older and from much more humble origins, Thomas shared Leo’s conservative outlook, and the two soon developed a deep friendship that would endure for many years. During this period, Leo was asked by the Federalist Society to become its first employee — although he delayed his start date so that he could help his good friend Thomas through his contentious confirmation process for the Supreme Court. Despite accusations of sexual harassment hanging over him, Thomas won Senate confirmation by a slim margin. It would be the first in a series of fights in which Leo would have to put aside the teachings of his Christian faith as he focused on the greater goal of pushing through a conservative revolution of the courts and of society at large. <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/opus-dei-leonard-leo-supreme-court-moneybags-kid-1235115538/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/opus-dei-leonard-leo-supreme-court-moneybags-kid-1235115538/</a>

David<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Originalism</a> is just another way of saying "making it up as you go along" <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uspolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/supremecourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#supremecourt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scotus</a>

Ramesh #NotGoingBack⬆️ <a href="https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@GreenFire</a> >> I could support <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MakeAmericaGreatAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MakeAmericaGreatAgain</a> if all that it entails is that only flintlock muskets are allowed again.No <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#justice</a> will ever agree with you on THAT kind of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/textualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textualism</a> on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SecondAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SecondAmendment</a>, nor on the "well-regulated militia" part, which I want to add to your point.

Mark W. Alexander<a href="https://mas.to/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Originalism</a> allows the court to establish laws based on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> Conservative state court rebukes the Supreme Court on abortion. <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/utah-rebukes-supreme-court-abortion-dobbs.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/utah-rebukes-supreme-court-abortion-dobbs.html</a>

FinchHaven infosec<a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Nonilex</a> The mask is offAll that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Textualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Textualism</a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Originalism</a> and high-minded-sounding <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OriginalIntent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OriginalIntent</a> schtick was a premeditated <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Federalist</a> / <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> lieIt's far right <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ActivistJudges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivistJudges</a> all the way down from here on out

NonilexIn “The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Originalism</a> Trap: How <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Extremists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Extremists</a> Stole the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Constitution</a> & How We the People Can Take It Back,” Madiba K. Dennie, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> lawyer & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#legal</a> commentator, offers a trenchant, sharply worded critique of originalist theories — & a call for a popular revolt against them. This is a timely project given that the number of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> justices who espouse such theories could increase if <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is elected to the White House again this fall.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a>

NonilexFor one thing, skeptics say, its adherents have abandoned their search for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intent</a> of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/framers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#framers</a>, a quixotic task that can lead only to indeterminate answers. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Originalism</a> as currently practiced is a modern invention whose methods have little to do w/how the founding generation conceived of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Constitution</a> or its method of interpretation, as recent historical research has shown. The theory’s advocates claim objectivity as one of its strengths, but the court relies on it haphazardly:

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Originalism</a> is the assertion that judges should be guided & limited in interpreting the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Constitution</a> solely by something original in it, although that “something” has shifted over time — from the original <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intent</a> of its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/framers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#framers</a>, to the original public <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meaning</a> of its text, to the original <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> at the time of its adoption, w/various sub-theories now debated. The theory has been sharply criticized.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>

NonilexOne of the more striking questions raised by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>’ controversial recent decisions—such as its partial shielding of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criminal</a> liability for his efforts to overturn the legitimate result of the 2020 pres election—is how they square w/the court’s embrace of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a> as a theory of constitutional interpretation. The court’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immunity</a> decision…was mainly non-originalist in its reasoning, despite the fact that 7 justices…have shown some affinity for originalist interpretation.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a>

Nonilex‘The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Originalism</a> Trap’ is a cutting critique of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judicial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#judicial</a> theory  Madiba K. Dennie argues that “originalism deliberately entombs historically <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/marginalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marginalized</a> groups’ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#legal</a> claims to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#liberation</a>”  <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/19/originalism-trap-madiba-k-dennie-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/19/originalism-trap-madiba-k-dennie-review/</a>

FeralRobotsInfoSec as a metaphor for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCotUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCotUS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JudicialActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JudicialActivism</a>: "The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/originalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalists</a> are basically just hackers bent on breaking in and controlling the system, and their tool is to convince people that maintenance is bad and to use Jedi mind tricks to convince people to allow them to unroll security fixes. Again, just preposterous." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OriginalIntent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OriginalIntent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/textualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textualism</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/112582266374157379" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/112582266374157379</a>

FeralRobotsConstitutional <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a> is a con. Always has been. <a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/112723596303597767" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/112723596303597767</a>

Vexatious Vegetable<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StareDecisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StareDecisis</a> my ass. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Originalism</a> my ass. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RuleOfLaw</a> my ass. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Impeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Impeach</a> the pigfuckers from top to bottom.

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://sfba.social/@Frances_Larina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Frances_Larina</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a> was a reaction to Brown v Board, which overturned Plessy v Ferguson. They are intent on undermining the “administrative state” built on top of the 13th thru 19th Amendments.

2xfo<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@thomasfuchs</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#originalism</a>

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