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If you hear someone call themselves an “originalist”, you already know it’s going to be a headache.
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Anonymous 3w

That’s honestly a new one for me.

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Unfortunately, originalism has been gradually gaining strength as a dog whistle for right-wing judicial activism since Scalia became the poster child for the term. It’s always just been a sleazy tactic to sanitize right-wing judicial activism and portray respectable jurists on the other side as traitors to the institution.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Tbh, before today, only time I heard it before was Amy coney fucking Barrett. I hate that it’s seemingly catching on as, atleast I believe, a dogwhistle for their base

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Oh originalist interpretation of the Constitution. Now I know I’ve heard that once or twice. To be fair here, you’ll hear that quite a bit with common law structure but yeah that is absolutely a dogwhistle for uber-conservative. Or a 2A absolutist.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Ahh apologies I should’ve clarified in the post, but yeah! That is really fair though, especially in legal fields where multiple or evolving interpretations could arise; but it’s really wild how people are seemingly using it outside of that context

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Anonymous replying to -> amethyst_headphone51 3w

Mind you its history as a dog whistle may go back further than that, this is just as far as I can trace it from conversations with my law professors.

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