Constitutional Context
Constitutional Context
Osher Institute at SDSU
Episode 4 – What’s a Constitutional “Originalist”?
6 minutes Posted Feb 21, 2017 at 8:18 pm.
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Now that President Trump has nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch – identified with the “original intent” school of constitutional interpretation – to replace Justice Antonin Scalia (the justice popularizing the original intent approach on the modern Court), CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT listeners are likely to hear lots of media reporting and pundit commentary about “originalism.” The numerous approaches […]