OA479: No, Judges Should NOT Be Originalists, Part 2
Opening Arguments
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🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 93 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 2 of the deep-dive that will set the record straight on why originalism is still bad.
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| 0:00.0 | He's in their laugh and 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 thy God? |
| 0:28.0 | You're gonna die when we go. |
| 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 | It's 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 479. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Thomas, that's Andrew, how you doing? |
| 1:25.0 | I am fantastic, but also literally angry with rage. |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, how about that? |
| 1:31.0 | I am... I mean, my angry with rage is that we've had to wait so long to get the thrilling part two. |
| 1:37.0 | This is like a real Star Wars situation. |
| 1:41.0 | You know, you've got to wait years for the sequels. |
| 1:44.0 | I mean, back when they were good. |
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