Re: originalism

JAB wrote:
 > The Supreme Court is off the rails
 > Jennifer Rubin
 > ....
 > .....
 > Put more simply, "originalism" does not work in practice. Forcing
 > courts to transport us back to the 18th century (before domestic abuse
 > laws,
No such thing as "domestic abuse".
 > voting rights for women,
Women shouldn't be allowed to vote.
 > the industrial age, etc.) creates
 > uncertainty, chaos and horrific results. If we insist on locking in
 > gun rights in 1791 and due process in 1868, we will have an America
 > that virtually no one wants to live in, a legal system that is
 > unworkable and a society in which disfavored groups lose progress made
 > over centuries.
 >
 > Frankly, Jackson's observation is on target with virtually any topic
 > (e.g., guns, legislative deference, equal protection, substantive due
 > process) because originalism in the hands of her colleagues has become
 > a results-oriented exercise to roll back the habits, laws and values
 > of modern America. It's not simply that some justices cherry-pick
 > history to reach the right-wing results they want; it's that the
 > entire exercise is unworkable and perverse.
 >
 > https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/26/mailbag-newsletter-supreme-court/
 >
 > I believe the founding fathers were progressives, and attempted to see
 > the best way forwarded based upon what they knew.
 >
 > This originalism is conservative non-sense...
You kikes destroyed the Constitution and the Bill of Rights decades ago.