Is the swingman retiring?

[GMDino]

Again, I'm just dicussing to discuss...but I found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism

A better way to say it is that originalists say the constitution must be upheld the way it is written.  Not what the words could mean or what they would mean at any other given time OTHER than when they were written.

Quote:Justice Scalia, one of the most forceful modern advocates for originalism, defined himself as belonging to the latter category:

Quote:The theory of originalism treats a constitution like a statute, and gives it the meaning that its words were understood to bear at the time they were promulgated. You will sometimes hear it described as the theory of original intent. You will never hear me refer to original intent, because as I say I am first of all a textualist, and secondly an originalist. If you are a textualist, you don't care about the intent, and I don't care if the framers of the Constitution had some secret meaning in mind when they adopted its words. I take the words as they were promulgated to the people of the United States, and what is the fairly understood meaning of those words.[21]

Which, to me, is silly.

Times changes...society changes.

Certain terms hold their meaning.  Certain thoughts do not.

And certainly the SC (including Scalia) has had more than few decisions that went against decades of consistent decisions.  That sound like interpretation...not originalism.