Shorter Scalia: Women Don’t Count 0
Ann Woolner, writing at Bloomberg, explains. A nugget:
When the Amendment was written, “Nobody ever thought that that’s what it meant,” Scalia said.
Here we have a perfect example of what’s so very wrong about so-called originalism, the theory Scalia claims to follow. The idea is that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its authors’ original intent, no changes allowed.
The 14th Amendment wasn’t meant to protect women, religious minorities, ethnic groups, and certainly not homosexuals. Written after the Civil War, its single aim was legal rights for newly freed slaves.
Newly freed MALE slaves, that is.
The leopard reveals his spots.
“Originalism” is to the law what the Laughable Curve is to economics: Fancy dress clothes for sacrificing the public good to the benefit of the privileged.