@TonyStark

“The presence of a gun in a domestic-violence situation increases the risk of femicide by more than 1,000 percent. Originalism is going to get women killed.”

This is exactly what the gun nuts want.

@TonyStark

Excellent article, Tony, on a horrible ruling and on Thomas' toxicity.

Quoting:

Instead of counseling “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” originalism instructs “If it’s still broken, you still can’t fix it”—a prescription for permanent crises in America, unsolvable in the present because they were not solved in the past

In Bruen, the Supreme Court announced a strict new originalist standard for evaluating the constitutionality of laws regulating guns. A gun law is now valid only if it's “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” And even then, Thomas wrote for the majority, “not all history is created equal.” (This is how the Bruen court justified striking down a law that had been on the books for more than a century.) The elected branches must prove to the judiciary that a sufficiently analogous regulation existed roughly 230 yrs ago, when the 2nd Amendment was adopted, or potentially 155 yrs ago, when the 14th Amendment was adopted.

@TonyStark

Defenders of "originalism" wholly neglect Article V of the Constitution which says in essence ... this document isn't perfect so feel free to amend it. But those defenders still don’t want me counted as a whole person.

@TonyStark

It doesn't matter what you use to justify hate and tyranny. It is still hate and tyranny.

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I think it is looking for a justification for a predetermined outcome.

I mean, come-on, Alito looked for a witch-burner to justify denying women’s rights.

That’s originalism in a nutty nutshell.

@TonyStark
If I may offer a slight (actually huge) correction: “originalism is ALREADY getting women killed”

By rolling back Roe v Wade, women dying from botched abortions, sepsis, ectopic pregnancies, etc, will become more commonplace.

@TonyStark This more of the same. Distract, distract, distract. Lets throw more panic into the system so no one can think straight.

The messaging is clear - they're willing to do literally anything to get what they want. We need to fully engage them at all legal levels.

@TonyStark

Fertile earth for motivated reasoning. Almost none better.

@TonyStark

“abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution, and is not “deeply rooted” in our “history and tradition.”

True enough. The Constitution has nothing to say about women’s reproductive health
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the original document does not mention women at all.”
https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/supreme-court-roe-handmaids-tale-abortion-margaret-atwood/629833/

#Abortion #WomensRights #USA #Sexism

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