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Episode 62: Gotta Fight For Your Rights!


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The Supreme Court continues to cherry-pick periods of history where people didn't have rights as justification to take away rights today under the guise of "originalism" and the Heritage Foundation is about to drop a radial reactionary's guide to interpreting the Constitution to further the conservative agenda that will do to our laws what Project 2025 is doing to us right now.

References:

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1965/759

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/heritage-foundation-constitution-book.html

https://journals.law.harvard.edu/crcl/originalism-a-conservative-doctrine-or-an-opportunity-to-expand-rights/

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/originalism-run-amok-supreme-court

 

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