Wow. Scientific American blasts SCOTUS rulings:
"Science is dismissed and disdained in this war on reality."
"technically incompetent, in some cases corrupt, politicos in robes with power over matters that hinge on vital facts about pollution, medicine, employment and much else."
"In rejecting facts to please their political party—and their patrons—the justices of the Court’s majority have broken their oath, made to both the Constitution and the American people."
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Nice article.
“Originalism” - a completely original interpretation of the Constitution, with no basis in history, which just happens to be exactly what the Republican SCJ’s owners want.
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SCOTUS six are not originalists. They are not textualists. They are origami experts. They bend and fold their decisions and transform them into something heretofore unimagined creature.
@MartyLemert @pomegranate_stew @petergleick They sort of ARE originalists. I say 'sort of', because there is no AUTHENTIC originalism, like they might be originalism-adjacent or something like that. They're as originalist as anyone is. It's just that originalism itself is, at best, mystical bullshit. So-called 'textualism' is only a bastard cousin, little better for solving tough questions. It's all quasi-legal voodoo.
https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/originalism-as-dangerous-nonsense/
In my 2018 book Originalism as Faith, after canvassing numerous different and often conflicting forms of originalism, I argued that many originalists hold on to the idea that text and history should be used by judges to resolve hard constitutional cases because they could not accept the realist critique that the Supreme Court’s decisions are ideology […]
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