Samuel Alito’s “Amelia Bedelia” Reading of the Constitution
What the Supreme Court Justice’s leaked draft opinion on abortion reveals about originalism.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/amelia-bedelia-meet-samuel-alito
Originalists argue that it’s not their fault that the drafters may have been slaveholders, or uniformly male, or white, or without any knowledge of contemporary technology or a more inclusive notion of humanity. Them’s the breaks; mere accidents of history