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Ed Gross's avatar

Coincidentally, I was recently ruminating on the outrage of originalism as practiced by the Roberts Court. To take one salient example, the framers could not possibly have anticipated the types of automatic weapons or their use to commit mass violence. And, of course, to imagine that 18th century white men, no matter how brilliant, should be trusted for their opinions on women and people of color is ridiculous.

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Sandy Krolick's avatar

I would suspect that the legal hermeneutics of not a few members of the Supemes is informed by their biblical hermeneutic; their literal interpretation of biblical text guiding judicial opinion.

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