How to Use originalism in a Sentence

originalism

noun
  • How the scourge of originalism is taking over the Supreme Court.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Views on originalism Kennedy has a different view.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Curtis had taken Taney’s uninformed originalism and thrown it in his face.
    — David W. Blight Max-O-Matic, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • At the end of the day, this comes down to originalism, constitutionalism.
    — Fox News, 10 July 2018
  • Now, though, originalism is in its ascendancy on the Supreme Court.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Joshua Zeitz gets the law and history wrong in attacking originalism.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 30 June 2022
  • The fourth dispute—and perhaps the most interesting one—is over originalism itself.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The court’s three liberals dissented in all three cases, calling originalism cramped and wooden.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • Breyer sums up textualism and originalism as attempts to make judicial reasoning a science and to make law a list of rules.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • So why is Wilentz so interested in a form of antislavery originalism?
    — Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • But, in fact, Gorsuch’s opinion can be said to have used the textualist method—derived from the plain language of the statute—rather than originalism.
    — The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Tillman and Blackman’s version of originalism requires us to act as though, once in office, the founders were capable of doing no wrong.
    — Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Slate Magazine, 17 July 2017
  • Dennie isn’t the first to note this tension between originalism and the group identities of those who were excluded from the original compact.
    — Kenneth W. MacK, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • One of these arguments holds that originalism is essential to a real interpretation of any text.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Under originalism, the court could reverse Griswold and let states ban contraception.
    — William Falk, The Week, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Some current justices adhere to the Scalia method of legal interpretation, known as originalism, and his barbed style.
    — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 21 May 2021
  • Whether the president knew it or not, originalism sounds the death knell for his executive order ending birthright citizenship.
    — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Whether the president knew it or not, originalism sounds the death knell for his executive order ending birthright citizenship.
    — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026
  • To be sure, that won’t make originalism the most persuasive theory for how to interpret the Constitution.
    — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • To be sure, that won’t make originalism the most persuasive theory for how to interpret the Constitution.
    — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026
  • By the nineteen-eighties, originalism had become the dominant legal ideology of the right.
    — Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 13 May 2022
  • As a scholar and a jurist, Scalia was the chief expositor of the judicial philosophy known as originalism.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • But Justice Amy Coney Barrett, for the second time in two weeks, took issue with the brand of originalism favored by some of her colleagues.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2024
  • Dennie has no truck with those liberals, such as Justice Jackson, who have sought to reclaim originalism from conservatives.
    — Kenneth W. MacK, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • Their legal theory, originalism, centers on the idea that the Constitution should be understood as it was meant at the time it was originally written.
    — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Upcoming programs include a talk on originalism and the Supreme Court and a discussion of feminist activism in the digital space.
    — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Scalia overturned a century of jurisprudence with an argument based on originalism—choosing to interpret the words as they were allegedly intended at the time of their writing.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 7 May 2021
  • And that's this idea of originalism, and reading the constitution as the founding fathers might have seen it, looking at its text and not really looking at extra textual elements.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 July 2022
  • Justice Antonin Scalia spent his early years on the court writing separately to expound the virtues of originalism and textualism.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The rebirth of originalism in the late 20th century, however, has led to a deeper understanding of the original public meaning of these words.
    — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 12 Feb. 2018

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