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- About the idea of originalism, he said, “I believe it’s the only sound way to interpret the Constitution. I don’t have to prove that it’s perfect; I just have to prove that it’s better than anything else,” he said.
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1 day ago · Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett is the author of A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist, a new memoir about his remarkable legal career.He joins Jeffrey Rosen to discuss his role in the evolution of originalism from a philosophy of judicial restraint to one of constitutional conservatism dedicated to restoring “the lost Constitution.”
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1 day ago · She is the only former law professor among the originalist-oriented judges and spent much of her time as an academic working on interpretive theory—originalism in constitutional law and ...
1 day ago · Originalism Even before this term, Barrett has written concurrences to raise doubts about the originalist methodology of opinions. In Bruen , which struck down a New York gun licensing scheme under the Second Amendment, she questioned the time frame for the historical evidence that Justice Thomas used to interpret the Amendment.
2 days ago · Antonin Gregory Scalia ( March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who served for 29 years, from 1986 until his death. He was appointed to the Court by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
1 day ago · But her actions do not signal an ideological shift but rather an effort to make the law more coherent and legitimate. She is embracing the role of the scholar-judge, a position that great justices like Joseph Story and Antonin Scalia also once occupied to the great benefit of legal stability and coherence.
4 days ago · Originalism has positioned itself as the au courant doctrine of legal interpretation. Proponents argue that originalism is a core element of our democratic identity and should be adopted by every judge.
