Antonin Scalia was known as an arch-conservative who was at the vanguard of what we see today in the politics of the USA. He had a dogma-induced blindness behind an affable personality. He never could see that he was cherry-picking within his "Originalist" bias as least as much as those he was criticizing for interpreting the US Constitution from the view of present circumstances. He never revealed a humble understanding that politics is not a "hard" science, but a "soft" social science, with very imprecise tools at arriving at truth.
The originalist position on constitutional interpretation should be laid to rest along with Justice Scalia.
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