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by gamblor956 784 days ago
I'm sure they'll have no trouble digging up some Founding Father who said something that sounds like banning this, if you squint right.

When this country was founded, a lot of its residents were slaves, so I'm sure Thomas and Alito will find plenty of fodder in that for their "originalist" stance denying workers rights.
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VS1999 783 days ago
I'm pretty sure the constitution was not written for slaves and no "originalist" stance would consider them. This is a silly "gotcha" that you just made up so you can get mad.
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unclebucknasty 782 days ago
>constitution was not written for slaves

That's the point.

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gamblor956 783 days ago
The 3/5th clause has been used by prior SCOTUSs to justify decisions, so it is not a gotcha. It's history...

On that note, Alito and Thomas had to use a pre-U.S. colonial law as their grounds to overturn Roe, so there is no limit to how far they will go to use "orignalism" to further their ideology.

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