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user-inactivated  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Absolutely wonderful, sprawling interview with Scalia

The more I read that paragraph, the more confused I was. Does he want everyone to be an originalist? Because I'm not, and I frankly can't believe that any sane person is (bring it on, hubski). So if you asked me I guess I would everyone to be an evolutionist or whatever the opposite of his view is. Except, like you said, I don't want that, for the same reason that I (and Scalia) would be worried if every decision was unanimous. That's unhealthy.

But in another sense, I understand and agree with him. The fact that some members of the SC are trying to preserve the document and others are trying to contextualize it -- that obscures the true liberal/conservative split of the court (might be a good thing) and leads to decisions potentially rendered for the wrong reasons.

EDIT: From the words of the man himself...

    And that was not originally a flaw. But the country has changed so much.