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I believe the process you’re talking about is called incorporation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights https://en.m.wikipedia.o
by 32163704 4y ago
I believe the process you’re talking about is called incorporation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of...
The Court will rely on this precedent where convenient, I suspect.
- dragonwriter 4y agoWhat I am talking about is that the particular mode of originalism that seems to have been adopted in Dobbs (and especially the extension specifically naming the broader doctrine of substantive due process as needing reconsideration in Thomas’ concurrence) is one which it is hard to see incorporation under the due process clause surviving if applied in any intellectually consistent, coherent manner.
- 32163704 4y agoAgreed. If it does stand, it will be in order to maintain ideological consistency, not judicial consistency. What a mess.