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The Confirmation Hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

We the People

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Justice Cagan's Sense of Interpretation

Jeffrey Toobin: Justice Cagan said that while the constitution is fixed in its meaning, we often have to think about what that meaning might mean for circumstances that the framers did not contemplate. She made a really important point over and over and over again, that, yes, it's fixed, but the court has been called upon for 200 and howev many years to interpret what it means. So incitful to imagine justice cagan's important mind were all attached to us now. We're all originalists now," he says.

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