• wjrii@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I haven’t kept up with his output, but when I was studying SCOTUS cases years and years ago, his opinions, mostly dissents or concurrences back in those days, were just bafflingly literal and lazy. Shit like, “I would declare the government’s actions unconstitutional because they’re regulating cars and the word ‘car’ is not in the Constitution.”

    I can’t believe his thread of, I won’t even call it originalism, more like historical-context-free literalist textualism, has gained any traction.