Senator Amy Klobuchar is exposing the intellectual flaws of originalism.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

She's whip smart.

[gabeana]

1. Will there be a transcript of this later

love to show it to my class

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I suspect you can find one. It was a great exchange.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. He didn't seem to appreciate

being queried by a female, much less bested by her. And interesting to watch his facial features visibly relax when the new questioner is a Republican.


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[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I was impressed. The notion that the Constitution is like an automobile manual strikes me as absurd.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. He's more tense when the inquisitor is from the opposition party?

This is not new, nor limited to republican selectees.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Not That Hard

No offense to Ms Klobuchar. I think she's a rising star too.

However, you don't have to be a whip smart rising star in Congress to expose the intellectual vacancy of that position.

The intellectual flaw of simplest extraction is that to be an originalist, one must read other writings of the framers to deduce the intent despite the fact that they wrote other wording into the Consitution. And how do they do that? By reading the minds of people dead for 200 years.

That's a pretty major flaw.

You don't interpret by interpreting what they were thinking by things they wrote down somewhere other than the document that is to be left without interpretation. Originalism is just plain stupid.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Now Cruz is defending it.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Of Course He Would

He's not very bright either
And, he's another one who thinks claiming to read the minds of dead people is normal