Originalists

"Originalists" like Scalia and Alito believe Constitutional decision making should be governed by how the Framers would have decided the issue at the time the constitution was written.

Miles Mogulescu: Sotomayor Hearings are Political Bullsh*t 2009

The four "Originalists" on today's Supreme Court walk, talk and quack like high federalist.

Paula Gordon: King George and the U.S. of A(T&T) 2008

None of that is government's business, and now political right "Originalists" want government forbidding same-sex unions.

Protecting Our Constitution From Those Who Would 'Save' It 2007

"Originalists" are all in a tizzy for government to dictate to us who we can marry.

Protecting Our Constitution From Those Who Would 'Save' It 2007

WSJ. com - Justice Breyer Takes 'Originalists' to Task In a New Book: When he was nominated to fill the Supreme Court's last vacancy, Stephen Breyer said he would strive to make the 'law work for people.'

Active Liberty 2005

None of these "original intents" were present in the Clinton impeachment; all were present in Nixon's Watergate capers, Reagan's Iran-contra subversion and Bush's war, National Security Agency spying on Americans, and many other actions. but we couldn't and can't get most "Originalists" behind impeachment of Nixon, Reagan and Bush.

Protecting Our Constitution From Those Who Would 'Save' It 2007

But "Originalists" ignore that principle all the time.

Protecting Our Constitution From Those Who Would 'Save' It 2007

To comply with "Originalists" demand that everything had to be specifically mentioned in order to be acceptable, we will have to eliminate all weaponry except those two.

Protecting Our Constitution From Those Who Would 'Save' It 2007

But it was Scalia and four other "Originalists" who upheld a government ban on what is questionably called "partial-birth" abortion, and they did so more on their religious beliefs than on their constitutional beliefs.

Protecting Our Constitution From Those Who Would 'Save' It 2007

It is also worth noting that modern "Originalists" and "Strict Constructionists" endorse and support Bush's scheme to turn Social Security into a "personal" system or a "private" program.

Protecting Our Constitution From Those Who Would 'Save' It 2007