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FinchHaven infosec<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span> </p><p>"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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immune</span></a> from <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/sentencing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sentencing</span></a>."</p><p>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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> was constructed by <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LeonardLeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardLeo</span></a> and the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FederalistSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalistSociety</span></a></p><p>Points of law, the entire logic of existing law, are meaningless</p><p>The Supreme Court of the United States exists only to do what is needed to advance the far-right agenda</p><p>All references to <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Textualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textualism</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> and the meaning of the law as it exists are a fraud </p><p>Not that any of that matters</p>
Chuck Darwin<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leonard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leo</span></a> was born on Long Island in the mid-sixties. <br>When he was only a toddler, he lost his father — a pastry chef — to cancer. <br>At the age of five, his mother remarried, and the Leos moved to New Jersey, where he attended Monroe Township High School. <br>Leo was chosen as the “Most Likely to Succeed” <br>a distinction he shared with classmate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sally</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schroeder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schroeder</span></a>, his future wife. <br>In the yearbook, the two were shown sitting next to each other, holding wads of cash and with dollar signs painted on their glasses. <br>He was so effective at raising money for his senior prom that his classmates nicknamed him the “Moneybags Kid.”&nbsp;<br>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; <br>his grandparents attended Mass daily, and encouraged the young Leonard to follow their lead. <br>After high school, Leo went to Cornell University, studying under a group of conservative academics in the university’s department of government <br>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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Robert</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bork</span></a> and the University of Chicago’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Antonin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antonin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scalia</span></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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalism</span></a>. <br>He got a series of internships in Washington, D.C., during the final years of the Reagan administration, <br>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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a>. <br>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.&nbsp;</p><p>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. </p><p>She decided to convert not long before her marriage. </p><p>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 <br>— a man from Georgia called <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clarence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a>, <br>who had toyed with becoming a Catholic priest. </p><p>Despite being ten years older and from much more humble origins, <br>Thomas shared Leo’s conservative outlook, and the two soon developed a deep friendship that would endure for many years. </p><p>During this period, Leo was asked by the Federalist Society to become its first employee <br>— although he delayed his start date so that he could help his good friend Thomas through his contentious confirmation process for the Supreme Court. </p><p>Despite accusations of sexual harassment hanging over him, Thomas won Senate confirmation by a slim margin. </p><p>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. <br><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/opus-dei-leonard-leo-supreme-court-moneybags-kid-1235115538/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/politics/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics-features/opus-dei-leonard-leo-supreme-court-moneybags-kid-1235115538/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In “The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> Trap: How <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Extremists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extremists</span></a> Stole the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> &amp; 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> lawyer &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> commentator, offers a trenchant, sharply worded critique of originalist theories — &amp; 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> justices who espouse such theories could increase if <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is elected to the White House again this fall.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>For 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intent</span></a> of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/framers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>framers</span></a>, a quixotic task that can lead only to indeterminate answers. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></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:</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> is the assertion that judges should be guided &amp; limited in interpreting the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intent</span></a> of its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/framers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>framers</span></a>, to the original public <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meaning</span></a> of its text, to the original <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> at the time of its adoption, w/various sub-theories now debated. The theory has been sharply criticized.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>One of the more striking questions raised by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a>’ controversial recent decisions—such as its partial shielding of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalism</span></a> as a theory of constitutional interpretation. The court’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immunity</span></a> decision…was mainly non-originalist in its reasoning, despite the fact that 7 justices…have shown some affinity for originalist interpretation.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>‘The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> Trap’ is a cutting critique of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judicial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judicial</span></a> theory<br>
Madiba K. Dennie argues that “originalism deliberately entombs historically <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/marginalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marginalized</span></a> groups’ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> claims to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberation</span></a>”

<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/19/originalism-trap-madiba-k-dennie-review/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/books/2024/</span><span class="invisible">07/19/originalism-trap-madiba-k-dennie-review/</span></a></p>
FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@KarlBode" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>KarlBode</span></a></span> </p><p>"I 100% believe this is a fatal gut shot to any sort of coherent, stable federal governance"</p><p>The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> is working exactly as <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LeonardLeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardLeo</span></a> and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FederalistSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalistSociety</span></a> intended</p><p>The mask is off</p><p>All that <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Textualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textualism</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> and high-minded-sounding <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/OriginalIntent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OriginalIntent</span></a> schtick was a premeditated <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federalist</span></a> / <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> lie</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> is now situational, relative, and expedient in one direction only</p><p>It's far right SCOTUS <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ActivistJudges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivistJudges</span></a> all the way down from here on out</p>
FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> </p><p>Ancient Twitter boilerplate:</p><p>"Remember all that <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Constitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitutional</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Textualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Textualism</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> crap?</p><p>All lies</p><p>The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> cares about the US <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> about as much as it cares about the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bible</span></a></p><p>Find one passage they need right now</p><p>Misinterpret it</p><p>Ignore all the rest</p><p>Throw that interpretation away when it's no longer needed </p><p>And basically do the bidding of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LeonardLeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardLeo</span></a> and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FederalistSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalistSociety</span></a> "</p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ohai.social/@thatandromeda" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thatandromeda</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mekkaokereke</span></a></span> Well, this _does_ have long-running historical precedent.</p><p>(Also, <a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> can die in a fire. Either it is based on the fever dreams of fascist <a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> judges, or on the views of racist, sexist slaveholder oligarchs. _Neither_ of which should be relevant on how a free and just society ought to be run.)</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-</span><span class="invisible">fifths_Compromise</span></a></p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Havant_Enviro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Havant_Enviro</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>georgetakei</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> - i.e. "the Constitution means whatever we currently hallucinate. Man, this is some good shit!..."</p>
antipode77<p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/Bullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bullshit</span></a></p><p>Is Originalism Bullshit?</p><p><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4749322" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf</span><span class="invisible">m?abstract_id=4749322</span></a></p><p>It’s finally time to answer the big question. This Article draws on the surprisingly robust literature examining the definition, essence, and significance of bullshit and evaluates whether originalist constitutional interpretation fits the bill.</p>
I Voted for McGovern<p>Contra SCOTUS recent "opinion" re Colorado's decision to leave insurrectionist Trump off the ballot, their argument that the consequence of a single or small group of states being able to decide the presidency, given the reality/intended purpose of the electoral college is beyond absurd. It is mentally defective logic not befitting of the grifter Opus Dei geniuses who control our court. What are they smoking? $100 dollar bills?<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/notmySCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notmySCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalism</span></a> is in the eye of the corrupt beholders?</p>
Leftist Lawyer<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> was never about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jurisprudence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jurisprudence</span></a>. </p><p>It's nothing more than a shiny excuse to suborn established <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/precedent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>precedent</span></a> and do what ever the fuck the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>court</span></a> wants. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lawfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawfedi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Not a NYT fan but these pieces apropos</p><p>U.S. Supreme Court Erased Part of Constitution<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/opinion/supreme-court-trump-colorado-constitution.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/03/04/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/supreme-court-trump-colorado-constitution.html</span></a></p><p>Why Elon Musk Is 2nd Most Important Person in MAGA<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112033080534029602" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@persagen/1120</span><span class="invisible">33080534029602</span></a></p><p>h/e: columnist David French 😠<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_French_(political_commentator)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fr</span><span class="invisible">ench_(political_commentator)</span></a><br>* served as a senior counsel Alliance Defending Freedom<br>* co-author of Nashville Statement, affirming immorality of homosexuality or transgenderism</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USconstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USconstitution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ADF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"It is a fact that, absent congressional action — which we all know is not happening in the current Congress — the majority’s decision effectively nullifies Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment for now outside of federal criminal prosecution and conviction for 'rebellion or insurrection.'</p><p>That is significant insulation."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalism</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson [state] that, 'By resolving these and other questions, the majority attempts to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office.'”</p><p>~ Chris Geidner</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalism</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ruling" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-colorado-ruling</span></a></p>
Georgiann Baldino<p>Jefferson on the separation of church and state, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a>.</p>
Bruce Mirken<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hawaii</span></a> state Supreme Court eviscerates <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> rulings on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GunControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GunControl</span></a> and the perverse fantasy of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalism</span></a>: "History is prone to misuse. In the Second Amendment cases, the court distorts and cherry-picks historical evidence. It shrinks, alters, and discards historical facts that don’t fit.” h/t <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@jeridansky" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jeridansky</span></a></span> <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/hawaii-supreme-court-guns-case-rebuke-scalia.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/news-and-politics/20</span><span class="invisible">24/02/hawaii-supreme-court-guns-case-rebuke-scalia.html</span></a></p>
Alex M. Dunne :ally:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@emilygorcenski" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emilygorcenski</span></a></span> </p><p>This is the <a href="https://masto.digittante.com/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalism</span></a> we need on <a href="https://masto.digittante.com/tags/2A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2A</span></a> ASAP</p>