How to Use originalism in a Sentence

originalism

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  • How the scourge of originalism is taking over the Supreme Court.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But, in fact, Gorsuch’s opinion can be said to have used the textualist method—derived from the plain language of the statute—rather than originalism.
    — The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Now, though, originalism is in its ascendancy on the Supreme Court.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • At the end of the day, this comes down to originalism, constitutionalism.
    — Fox News, 10 July 2018
  • It’s an approach called originalism, which is one of the bedrock tenets of the Federalist Society.
    — Skyler Swisher, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • State decisions to bar Donald Trump from the ballot will force the justices to weigh strict originalism against the prospect of political chaos.
    — Jeffrey Rosen, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Coons argued that Barrett's seat on the court would mean more decisions that adhere to originalism.
    — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2020
  • It’s a Court that hews to the tenets of originalism, with different shades of emphasis by different Justices.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 July 2022
  • Tillman and Blackman’s version of originalism requires us to act as though, once in office, the founders were capable of doing no wrong.
    — Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Slate Magazine, 17 July 2017
  • Joshua Zeitz gets the law and history wrong in attacking originalism.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 30 June 2022
  • Curtis had taken Taney’s uninformed originalism and thrown it in his face.
    — David W. Blight Max-O-Matic, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Some critics of originalism fault it on natural-law grounds.
    — J. Joel Alicea, National Review, 3 May 2022
  • The fourth dispute—and perhaps the most interesting one—is over originalism itself.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Among the criticisms of originalism is that the Constitution, as Breyer has said, uses broad language that the founders knew would have to be flexible to changes in society.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Some current justices adhere to the Scalia method of legal interpretation, known as originalism, and his barbed style.
    — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 21 May 2021
  • But that interpretation of originalism ran up against another one: The founders let states decide how to pick electors.
    — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
  • Upcoming programs include a talk on originalism and the Supreme Court and a discussion of feminist activism in the digital space.
    — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2023
  • As a scholar and a jurist, Scalia was the chief expositor of the judicial philosophy known as originalism.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Barrett is of the school of legal thought known as originalism, which emphasizes rigorous adherence to the text of the Constitution and the intentions of those who brought it into being.
    — Steve Chapman Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The rebirth of originalism in the late 20th century, however, has led to a deeper understanding of the original public meaning of these words.
    — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The court’s three liberals dissented in all three cases, calling originalism cramped and wooden.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • But strict fidelity to originalism is a bit like strict compliance with all traffic laws: more appealing in theory than in practice.
    — Steve Chapman Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Justice Antonin Scalia spent his early years on the court writing separately to expound the virtues of originalism and textualism.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Or that Trump transformed the GOP brand from one of law and order, of federalism and originalism, into one of incitement and riot, of cult of personality and usurpation of power.
    — Star Tribune, 12 Jan. 2021
  • The lawyer joked that suddenly the left had taken a surprising turn toward originalism, a legal philosophy that mandates looking to the text of the Constitution and the framers’ intent to interpret the law.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Under originalism, the court could reverse Griswold and let states ban contraception.
    — William Falk, The Week, 19 Dec. 2021
  • So why is Wilentz so interested in a form of antislavery originalism?
    — Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • By the nineteen-eighties, originalism had become the dominant legal ideology of the right.
    — Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 13 May 2022
  • Their legal theory, originalism, centers on the idea that the Constitution should be understood as it was meant at the time it was originally written.
    — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • One of these arguments holds that originalism is essential to a real interpretation of any text.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023

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