• BaroqueInMind
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    ~200 years of precedent

    I anal, so hopefully you can provide me shit to read about this precedence and help me change my mind.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Dozens of people much smarter than me have written books about it.

      Look into the dissenting opinions (and analysis of them) of DC v. Heller. Scalia claimed to be a “traditionalist,” and then completely ignored how the original text had been interpreted since the nation’s inception. He took a lot of heat for it at the time.

      • Zink@programming.dev
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        He took a lot of heat for it at the time

        Oh wow, I bet he got his act together after that one and has had a spotless record since.