OA477: No, Judges Should NOT Be Originalists
Opening Arguments
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🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
A recent episode of the Rationally Speaking Podcast featured Originalist Law professor William Baude arguing for why judges should be originalist. Needless to say, it was not a good case and strawman arguments abounded. Andrew is here to give us part 1 of the deep-dive that will set the record straight on why originalism is still bad.
Then we've got Ace Associate Morgan Stringer on for some pop-law! She gives us the breakdown on the lawsuits filed against DeShaun Watson which allege sexual assault.
Links: Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), Gamble Decision with Thomas quote
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| 0:00.0 | He's in there laughing his ass off because he knows more about the Lord in YouTube. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm here live, it's not a cat. |
| 0:25.0 | My Lord, is that you? |
| 0:28.0 | You're going to have a little ritual. |
| 0:36.0 | Objects in your honor, strangling your witness. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm going to a lie. |
| 0:45.0 | We... |
| 0:46.0 | Disagree? |
| 0:48.0 | That's it? We disagree? |
| 0:50.0 | Well, I can't say we agree. That's how I lost my first ten cases. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 0:59.0 | This podcast is sponsored by the law offices of P Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes, |
| 1:04.0 | is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:09.0 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 477. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Thomas, that's Andrew. How are you doing, sir? |
| 1:24.0 | I'm fantastic, Thomas. How are you? |
| 1:26.0 | I am excited to get into today's episode. |
| 1:30.0 | We've got a new Morgan segment. |
| 1:34.0 | I mean, how exciting is that? Can't wait to do that. |
| 1:37.0 | And then we've got to break down why originalism is bad and why that episode of rationally speaking was perhaps not the best. |
| 1:44.0 | Perhaps not the best. |
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