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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by ahtihn on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:39PM (#31935855)
> Originalism is as bad in jurisprudence as orthodoxy is in religions.

There's nothing stopping you from rewriting the laws. Religions don't work that way.

Although, the US constitution is almost a religious text the way it's treated as almost sacred. Why does anyone still care what the founders intended? They're not prophets...

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by WastingMyTime89 on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:08AM (#31945279)
> Why does anyone still care what the founders intended? They're not prophets…

As a foreigner whose country changed constitutions a good dozen of times since the USA passed its own and amends it more or less yearly, this used to baffle me. My take is that there is so little that units American together nowadays that they cling strongly to every anchor they can find.

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