As ridiculous as it is to create and judge 21st century laws based upon whether or not our 18th century Founding Fathers were clairvoyant enough to included specific solutions for the social, technological, and political challenges we face today in the founding documents that they created 250 years ago, Constitutional Originalism is still ascendent on … Continue reading The Originalist Solution to the 2nd Amendment
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Taking Away Rights
Those who would take away others' rights won't stop with those rights. Or those people.Once they're done stripping the rights you don't mind losing -- because their loss hurts mainly people you don't mind hurting -- they will come for (the rest of) your rights, too.I thought this was deeply entrenched common knowledge. Why do … Continue reading Taking Away Rights
Selective Blindness and the Promise of America
With the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, it’s worth looking back a few weeks at Senator Ted Cruz’s take on President Biden’s now-fulfilled pledge to nominate a black woman to the court: "The fact that [Biden’s] willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, … Continue reading Selective Blindness and the Promise of America
Heath Fogelman, author 