Bench Memos

More Greenhouse Gas

After all these years, Linda Greenhouse’s understanding of originalist methodology is evidently so confused that she imagines that a sound exercise of originalism would yield the conclusion that the word “persons” doesn’t include women.

The fact that some judges have committed bad originalism is no more a general indictment of originalism than the fact that some writers pen stupid op-eds is a general indictment of expressing opinions.

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