the Jackson water crisis case is jaw-dropping, and a distilled example of originalism:
if judges aren’t convinced that galling government mistreatment of Black people was a constitutional problem in the past, then it isn't a constitutional problem in the present
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Fifth Circuit: Unfortunately, Originalism Means the Government Is Allowed to Poison Your Drinking Water
By defining constitutional rights as narrowly as possible, conservative judges make it easy to conclude that those rights do not exist.
