Nine Reasons that “Originalism” Isn’t Really a Thing for Supreme Court Justices

Michael Austin
Dialogue & Discourse
5 min readOct 17, 2020

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“Originalism” may be a reasonable way to interpret 99.99% of Constitutional questions that come up. But the Supreme Court exists to handle the other .01%. Justices of our highst court need to have more than one tool in…

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Michael Austin
Dialogue & Discourse

Michael Austin is a former English professor and current academic administrator. He is the author of We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America’s Civic Tradition