An important series, shedding light on the way wealthy radical “conservatives” wield the ridiculous idea of #Originalism in the quest to tie America to the era when #SlaveOwning white men had all the rights and controlled everything. It serves the goals of #ReligiousExtremists and sinister #Oligarchs who want to regress to a time where only rich men had power.
https://slate.com/originalism
How Originalism Ate the Law

America is being led astray by a small handful of folks who are drunk-driving on a small, stupid, perpetually changing theory of legal interpretation.

Slate
Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation

Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes

The Guardian