Addendae
Clarence Thomas’s Cherry-Picked Originalism on Affirmative Action
https://newrepublic.com/article/174469/clarence-thomas-cherry-picked-originalism-affirmative-action
Originalist justices now hold a majority of seats on the Supreme Court.
As originalists, these justices believe that when the Constitution was written, the informed public understood the meaning of its vague clauses; & they believe that that meaning, as a kind of fundamentalist Scripture, must be binding for all time unless changed through the extremely arduous Article V amendment process.
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