Originalism has an Achilles heel: Women.
is the perfect opportunity to expose originalism’s Achilles’ heel: women. Why? If originalism is the “only way” to read the Constitution, then women are invisible. Women had no rights in the 13th century or in 1787, when the Constitution was created. Nor did women have any rights when the Constitution was amended after the Civil War in 1868 to add the 14th Amendment.
Like, the rationale that women should be able to have a bank account without her husband’s permission, or shouldn’t be terminated from a job because of pregnancy, is inconsistent with originalism. By the conservative justices’ logic, these wins for gender equality could be up for reversal.Originalism lives in part because liberals have no viable alternative. They talk about a “living” Constitution, which is about as bad a public slogan as one could create.
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