William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: Don't you love the ponderous commentary from Republicans and "centrists" about how ...
Don't you love the ponderous commentary from Republicans and "centrists" about how the Constitution's remedy against letting insurrectionists run for office is historically conditioned — those words don't mean the same thing today that they meant when they were written in the 19th century.
This from the SAME PEOPLE who have long nattered on about how the words — as written, literally — of the 18th-century Constitution are absolutely binding now…..
#Constitution #originalism #insurrection
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