Originalism Is A Psyop

TACO makes Nixon look like Jimmy Carter.

It's just their excuse when they feel like stone walling. Republicans don't really care about that they just want your votes and your money.

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Thank you so much for breaking these things down for us. I am learning a lot here.

Nobody knows what the original meaning was. In other words, it means whatever you want it to mean while pretending to honor some fictional past. It's just about the definition of reactionary.

And Republicans, the party apparatchiks, have never forgotten.

A large pool of randomly selected judges is one of my biggest reform ideas. And spread it to all the country to get "court shopping" out of the way.

Thank you for bringing it back to campaign finance reform. It is outrageous the money is considered speech. Money is not speech. Corporations are not people. It is pure nonsense designed to give people with the most money the most power. I don't recall if the reforms in the 2025 HR 1 For the People Act addressed this- but it was comprehensive reform, passed by the House, blocked by the Senate.

Hell yeah! 👍🏽 Amen.

The decision in Marbury v Madison is not supported by the original text of the constitution. A true origionalist would decline to engage in judicial review.

"Bork Bork bork" -Halo.

7:30 hey! that's the U.S. right now!
Thank you for calling out the intellectual dead end that is originalism!

The united states deserves to fall

I recognized a younger Joe Biden in the senate.

13 member supreme court.

Well done. Thank you. This is very helpful. I think, also, that "originalism" is not unlike the methodology employed by literalists when they insist on taking every word of sacred text at face value, without considering the context within which those words were first written and also the context within which we are now reading them (e.g., the advances of Darwin and Einstein and Hubble and DNA and psychology and neuroscience and the biological sciences, etc., etc., etc.). Hence they insist that biblical material, first written 3,000 or 4,000 years ago, is the "inerrant word of God" and must be accepted word-for-word (not to mention the dilemmas of multiple translations, still-surviving texts, etc.). It's not surprising that today's fundamentalists are essentially synonymous with the religious right and Republicans. Which is also the case globally: ISIS, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Hindu Nationalists, etc., all want the same thing: – they want to force all of us into yesterday, back into a world of pre-Darwinian patriarchy. Republicans and fundamentalists and so-called "originalists" are no different. They love fiction and "originalism" has given them an excuse to embrace their own beliefs (that amount to fiction – and ignoring all that we've been learning in recent years and decades about the world and about ourselves and the universe). If I may say so, this is one of your better presentations. Again, it's very interesting and very helpful. Thank you.

Let's just make it up as we go along.

Leeja, Your interpretation beats ALL for PURE 'originalism'. Yet your originalism is of a later-day kind. The originalism you berate, however, condemns our founders. It is true, the founders could not plan for every problem modernity would pose. Yet, much more than today's decision-makers, they were people of affairs experienced in all practical problems that people trying to design a productive, harmonious society would ever face. Now ever narrower specialists decide for communities large and small

The 1st thing the Constitution laid down was to make lawmaking No 1. Alas! Long ago, most serious lawmaking soon defaulted to the judicial branch. Had Congress done its work the put-up job that became Plessy v Ferguson would never have been. What some conclude occurred in the normal course of events, was engineered well ahead. When the Sup Ct pulled Plessy out of their asses, most states in the Union were anti-slavery. So Congress could have forestalled segregation as okay law. .

When Blackmun, J, wrote the Roe v Wade decision, he was likely the Sup Ct's ablest member. So he was tasked with finding where the Constitution not only smrntioned abortion, but where it said every woman had a right to one. He later acknowledged that his decion's foundation was weak indeed. Entirely made up is more truthful.

What better place to have Congress pass a law leaving abortion to each state or to initiate a Constitutional amendment doing the same?

Some judges are sensible, but after very long making up rationales to justify what they already believe anyway, they tend to grow ridiculous. The best way to change laws is by lawmakers. Yet, for too many lawmakers now serving in Congress, congressional office has become a sinecure where most congressional effort aims at re-election. I liken Congress to kiddies having a grand time splashing away in the kiddie pool.

I knew Bork was an ass. Now I know why. Thanks for a solid explanation and vid.

Crazy that I agree with her on 99% of things but she comes off so pissy and unlikeable that I couldn’t get past her attitude. We’re gonna be stuck with republicans forever😅

I think these people are not originalist enough. I want 🐻 bear arms_🐻 goddmit! Our founding fathers had the foresight, the divine insight to promise something that wasn't even possible at the time, _bear arms. I want my Second Amendment right to have bear arms. Maybe through genetic manipulation. Maybe through a transplant, but we all have a right to bear arms, and it's spelled out as plain as day to anyone who takes the time to read our Constitution.

The criminality of today's GOP is traceable directly to Nixon on multiple threads, across multiple subjects, involving multipe Nixon advisors who continued to spread the infection across the decades and everywhere they went.

I didn't know Bork was one of the originators of Originalism. It's always been a scam, with the most charitable position being that it keeps us locked into a spectacularly backward era of human rights and governance.