{"id":32006,"date":"2022-06-30T08:52:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32006"},"modified":"2022-06-30T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:52:01","slug":"the-supreme-courts-faux-originalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32006","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court\u2019s Faux \u2018Originalism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/06\/26\/conservative-supreme-court-gun-control-00042417\">There is ample reason<\/a> to disagree with originalism as a legal philosophy. Should a 21st century society really interpret its Constitution by the standards of 1787 \u2014 an era before the introduction of semi-automatic weaponry, steam power, penicillin, automobiles, trains, electric lights and indoor plumbing? In some ways, though, that\u2019s a pointless debate at the moment. With originalists holding six of the Supreme Court\u2019s nine seats, we\u2019re all living in an originalist world.<\/p>\n<p>The functional problem with originalism is that it requires a very, very firm grasp of history \u2014 a grasp that none of the nine justices, and certainly few of their 20-something law clerks, freshly minted from J.D. programs, possess.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to become an expert in American political, legal or social history. It\u2019s quite easy, though, to cherry-pick historical examples that prop up an end in search of a rationale \u2014 which is precisely what the Supreme Court majority did this week, twice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is ample reason to disagree with originalism as a legal philosophy. Should a 21st century society really interpret its Constitution by the standards of 1787 \u2014 an era before the introduction of semi-automatic weaponry, steam power, penicillin, automobiles, trains, electric lights and indoor plumbing? In some ways, though, that\u2019s a pointless debate at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32007,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32006\/revisions\/32007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}