“Originalism’s ideology was born in sin; recent scholarship has argued that originalism first emerged to defend segregation following the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.”

Brown overturned Plessy v Ferguson.

The originalists are butt-hurt about the 13th through 19th Amendments, but can’t say that, so they foment #CultureWar, instead.

#politics is downstream from #culture is downstream from #power.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The Case That Could Destroy the Government

What was once a fringe legal theory now stands a real chance of being adopted by the Supreme Court.

^{Noah Rosenblum (The Atlantic)}