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“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)