It says something that originalism -- a widely accepted legal theory -- can be fairly used as a serious academic vehicle for ...

Originalism, a framework with roots in the segregationist past and funded by right-wing oligarchs, helped lead to Donald ...

Originalism is the idea that we should interpret the Constitution with its original meaning. But what, exactly, is the Constitution’s “original meaning”?

This Court Has Revealed Conservative Originalism to Be a Hollow Shell The Supreme Court’s right-wing justices claim to be originalists, but then they pick and choose the history that fits their ...

Originalism. Originalism and the "Major Questions" Doctrine Originalist legal scholars Mike Ramsey and Mike Rappaport debate whether the major questions doctrine - an important theory underlying ...

Originalism is the assertion that judges should be guided and limited in interpreting the U.S. Constitution solely by something original in it, although that “something” has shifted over time ...

Originalism privileges the centuries-old writings of illustrious figures of the founding or Reconstruction era as determined by today’s most brilliant legal historians and theorists.

Letter: The Constitution contains anti-democratic elements which serve minority interests and devotees of originalism. FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, on Nov. 5, 2020.

Originalism, whatever its merits, simply couldn’t have been done. I ’ll make the point with Hill v. Kessler, a case litigated ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. America is being led astray by a small handful of folks who are drunk-driving on ...

The vision elaborated by the two Yale professors and their followers is not simply a liberal spin on the right’s approach to originalism. If anything, it’s more punctilious in plumbing the ...

Originalism can be moral even if some individual provisions, as originally understood, fail to pass universal tests for morality. What matters is not the morality of the individual rules, but the ...