Originalism teaches only that the Constitution’s original meaning is fixed; meanwhile, of course, new applications of that meaning will arise with new developments and new technologies. Consider a few ...

These days, everyone wants to be an originalist. But in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright-citizenship case at the Supreme Court, not everyone is doing originalism well. Alas, the Trump administration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a constitutional law professor, the author of “A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism,” and an originalist, ...

This article is part of In Session: The Teen Vogue Lesson Plan. Find the full lesson plan here. When Republican leaders make judicial appointments, they are often looking for only one thing: whether a ...

Join us for our annual Antonin Scalia Constitution Day Lecture with Judge Amul Thapar, "Originalism in Theory and Practice." Judge Amul R. Thapar serves as a judge on the United States Court of ...

Recent Supreme Court decisions overturning Roe v. Wade and expanding gun rights in the U.S. have led some legal experts to declare the “triumph of originalism.” The court’s opinions do, in fact, ...

dam Shapiro’s unfortunate effort to argue against “the idea that only legal schools can competently critique originalism” actually serves as evidence for the opposite point. His critique of ...

When originalism began gaining traction in the 1970s and 1980s, its proponents frequently cited its supposed constraining impact on judges as a virtue. This claim fit well both with originalism's ...

R ecently, an English professor took to Twitter to condemn the U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s theory of the law. “As a scholar of 18th-century English, trust me when I say that ...

A Tomahawk missile. Tomahawks were among the weapons used in last night's US and allied strike on Syria. In a recent post at the Originalism Blog, prominent originalist legal scholar Michael Ramsey ...

Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Murphysboro, Illinois, on October 27, 2018. (Reuters / Al Drago) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and ...

Last year, more than 40,000 people were killed by guns in the United States. Gun violence is now the No. 1 killer of children in America, and every month, about 70 American women are murdered by ...