iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Replies

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Does Amy Coney Barrett subscribe to this view that the reconstruction amendments are illegitimate? Or at least plays footsie with it?

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social

There’s definitely a deeply rooted former Confederate state tradition of thinking that the Reconstruction Amendments are illegitimate. But this? Saying it out loud, on camera? yeah that’s unusual

3474 47

MF HUME @mfhume.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

No.

200 2

MF HUME @mfhume.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Or rather, there is no reason to think this, her questions in oral argument presume their legitimacy, and her recent book implies that the reconstruction amendments were necessary to correct flaws in the original Constitution.

100 1

Yohannanx @yohannanx.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It was a rhetorical question. She’s played footsie with it in her scholarly writings.

110 1