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Akhil Amar Talks Liberal Originalism

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The Most Important and Influential Originalist of the Last Century Was Not Bork, Not Sculia

The most important and influential originalist of the last century was a liberal wat franklin roosevelt's first appointment to the united states supreme court, hugo black. And i believe he was the driving intellectual force of the warren court,. Not earl warren, not william rennon, which is how it's taught in fancy law schools. He got the war court to overrule precedent precedent after press. It sounds familiar, because it should, given last month's events.

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