Tag: Originalism

Amy Coney Barrett Sounds Fed Up With Clarence Thomas’ Sloppy Originalism

A minor dispute over a trademark registration erupted into a heated battle over originalism at the Supreme Court last week, splintering the justices into warring camps over the value and practicality of history in constitutional analysis. No surprise there—as the term accelerates toward a contentious finale, the tensions roiling major cases are bound to spill […]