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This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler cover image

The Death of American Democracy?

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

CHAPTER

Right-Leaning Supreme Court - The History of Rights

Jamal Green: US courts still deal with rights claims as if it's a kind of binary. It's either you have a right and the government's doing something terrible, he says. Republicans on the Supreme Court seek to do this by using an absolutist doctrine they call originalism. The idea of basing legal decisions in the 21st century on a specific meaning drafted in the 18th century is "profoundly disturbing," writes Green.

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