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What Gorsuch's originalism puts at risk (opinion) - CNN.com
Though they mostly did not call it by its name -- originalism, or the theory that the Court should interpret the Constitution using the meaning its words and phrases held when they were originally written -- Republicans praised that philosophy for helping Gorsuch rise above politics. As Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa put it, this philosophy insures that judges don't try to "update the Constitution and, in so doing, don't take from the American people the right to govern themselves."
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Then this dick goes on to attach originalism as a tool of the rich.
OMGOSH.
Though they mostly did not call it by its name -- originalism, or the theory that the Court should interpret the Constitution using the meaning its words and phrases held when they were originally written -- Republicans praised that philosophy for helping Gorsuch rise above politics. As Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa put it, this philosophy insures that judges don't try to "update the Constitution and, in so doing, don't take from the American people the right to govern themselves."
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Then this dick goes on to attach originalism as a tool of the rich.
OMGOSH.