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rogue emissary

(3,147 posts)
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 02:50 PM Oct 2020

Amy Coney Barrett on originalism




Amy Coney Barrett on originalism: "That means that I interpret the Constitution as a law... I understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it. That meaning doesn't change over time and it's not up to me to update it or infuse my policy views into it."


As a originalist how has she explained being a judge? The Constitution doesn't refer to women as jurist or voters for that matter. That whole "all men are created equal" line.
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Amy Coney Barrett on originalism (Original Post) rogue emissary Oct 2020 OP
So she believes in slavery? Dawson Leery Oct 2020 #1
I hope they ask her position. rogue emissary Oct 2020 #5
it's such a phony position RANDYWILDMAN Oct 2020 #2
What's next for her, creationism? SWBTATTReg Oct 2020 #3
Wouldn't surprise me if she is a creationist. rogue emissary Oct 2020 #7
What lazy, inflexible bullshit. We'd still have enslavement,... brush Oct 2020 #4
So the Second Amendment is just for muskets? dem4decades Oct 2020 #6
Yeah she admits to owning a gun. rogue emissary Oct 2020 #8

RANDYWILDMAN

(2,645 posts)
2. it's such a phony position
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 02:55 PM
Oct 2020

you could be an attorney when that was written
you could not be a judge when that was written
you could not own property when that was written
you could not vote when that was written

Ya thought so, go away

brush

(53,475 posts)
4. What lazy, inflexible bullshit. We'd still have enslavement,...
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 02:56 PM
Oct 2020

no LGBTQ right, no women voting rights, or women Supreme Court justices for that matter, if originalists had their way.

God, why would a woman call herself an originalist?

Oh, wait. She clerked for Scalia so of course she does what her and other women in her charismatic Catholic faith do (People of Praise), what men tell them to do.

rogue emissary

(3,147 posts)
8. Yeah she admits to owning a gun.
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 03:08 PM
Oct 2020

Pretty sure there was only musket and flintlock pistols. Of course she doesn't own one of those for her home protection.

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