Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

The only person here interested in QAnon is you.  What does that tell you?  You're obsessed with them, like you get obsessed with everything else that the puppetmasters tell you to get obsessed about.

We on the right couldn't give a damn about some QAnon group.

Did you get your daily email today, telling you what to think?  

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

Originalist?  Like blacks are only 3/5 human and women didn't have the vote?  That kind of originalist?

Dave

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

"Article 1 of the Constitution, in pertinent part reads as follows:

3. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons."


Now your constitution doesn't say this any more thanks to amendments but it originally did.  Originally.

Do originalists interpret the Constitution as originally written?

Dave

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Wrong

Originally Posted by James Brown

And it has.  Bigly.  

Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Rod:  

You are of course missing a huge point.  Two of them in fact.  Point 1 - It is impossible to predict what sort of Justice ACB will turn out to be.  Point 2 - If anything, ACB is a student of Scalia's.  Scalia and Thomas approach(ed) the Constitution in very different ways, even though both are generally grouped as conservatives or originalists.  Thomas does have some odd views, even in my opinion.  But lumping ACB and Thomas together is without merit, at least not yet.

I have not read this article, so I don't know if it is any good or not.  It purports to explore the critical differences between Thomas and Scalia's jurisprudence, differences that are well known among conservatives and legal scholars but ignored by the press:

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/two-kinds-of-originalism

Jim