[iaw]

> This seems to be a very uncharitable take on what originalism means. You're basically saying the people believe in the paranormal and derive their rulings based on a séance. The first sentence on wikipedia provides a far less biased view.

That much more charitable understanding gets thrown out the window when originalists are confronted with things that override their dogma and stretch them to come up with new legal interpretations to suit their desired moral outcome.

[bcrosby95]

Just because they set aside originalism when an outcome seems to offend their personal views more than they like, doesn't mean they think they have some special spiritual link to the founders.