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No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC 4h
NEW: In his opening statement, Chuck Grassley (R-IA) whined and lectured Ketanji Brown Jackson, telling her the Constitution should be interpreted “as it was understood when written” in 1787. At that time, only white land-owning men could vote.

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[Baitball Blogger]

1. God bless you for listening to the GOP's statements.

I couldn't stomach it.

The founder's intent. The Constitution has had many changes since the founders signed the original Declaration. It is a Living Document.

[Botany]

2. So Chuck is good w/slavery?

n/t

[SoonerPride]

3. of course he is

and women being silent child bearing machines.

[KentuckyWoman]

4. He's flat out saying he thinks she should be a slave.

Not that it was any secret but they aren't even trying to lie about it anymore.

[Rebl2]

6. Yep

That’s what he is saying.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Original intent is nonsense. We can't know exactly back then. We can't remember pre-internet.

Grassley is a mental infant.

[rurallib]

7. Back when Chuck was a wee lad

growing up in something that would someday be 'iowa'

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. They use the Constitution the same way they use the Bible.

Only they are allowed to interpret what the documents mean.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job.

Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job.

Grassley: Workload may keep women off committee

[ffr]

10. Our Constitution is a living document

"the Constitution should be interpreted “as it was understood when written?"

As a living document, it was intended to evolve by the fuckers who wrote it. So to interpret it any other way is to not understand that THAT WAS THE UNDERSTANDING OF IT WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN!!

Russians are such stupid fuck!

[Leith]

15. That was my first thought, too

The ability to add amendments was exactly their way of making sure the Constitution grew and evolved as the country did.

Grassley is purposefully ignoring the founders' intentions.

[PJMcK]

11. The Founders' intent and Originalism are BS

Those fellows who wrote the Constitution wrote the provisions for amending it.

Get it, Republicans? They gave us the mechanism to make changes as time, technology and the country advanced. The Founding Fathers (an expression I detest) intended for the Constitution to be amended.

If they didn't, they wouldn't have explained how to do it.

Damn, Republicans are stupid.

[Pepsidog]

12. As an attorney I just cannot believe the most enlightened men of their time who knew about the

original enlightened men would be so-called believe the Constitution is static, stuck in time.

[Dirty Socialist]

13. "Good times they aren't forgotten"

“Whoopin’ slaves and bailin’ cotton”

- Tom Lehrer

[Midnight Writer]

14. Then we should do away with our standing military.

[SCantiGOP]

17. Thomas Jefferson didn't intend to bind future generations

He said that every generation, meaning every 20
years, had a right to their own Revolution. He said he hoped it would always be a peaceful process, but saw no problem with rewriting the Constitution every 20 years.

Besides, if Grassley were correct, no woman or African American in the Senate would be allowed to vote anyway.

[Brainfodder]

18. Geezer Grassley as he should be known, should be quiet and never seen or heard IMHO!

I shouldn't say more.

[Picaro]

19. Originalism is intellectual BS