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(52,386 posts)he does not believe in originalism and follow it to its logical conclusion and vote accordingly. if the result of a logical application of originalism were to lead to a liberal conclusion, he would find some way to justify a right-wing vote. perhaps by focusing on the text or original meaning of one part of the constitution while ignoring some other part.
read bush v. gore again and tell me he actually believes in originalism and can put his own preferences aside and vote according to his cherished originalism. he upheld upheld unequal voting methods across the state by denying unequal recount methods across the state. so his originalist interpretation was that the founders would have wanted to disenfranchise people who cast legitimate ballots because a scanner didn't read them properly, or because they wrote in and ticked the box for the same person?
if he honestly thought that florida's system was unequal and the prescribed recount couldn't constitutionally solve it, he should have thrown out the ENTIRE florida election, which would have let the florida legislature determine how to cast its electoral votes, which would have led shrub to being made president ANYWAY.
but then shrub would have had even less credibility, and scalia didn't want that, so he came up with a completely nonsensical rationale for voting his preference.
bottom line is that "originalism" doesn't always mean right-wing, but "scalia" pretty much always means right-wing.