MF HUME @mfhume.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Or 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
MF HUME @mfhume.bsky.social · 09/05/2026(Unless “plays footsie” is taken as “raises and rejects a hypothetical”) bsky.app/profile/mfhu...MF HUME@mfhume.bsky.socialSo Barrett “plays footsie” with the illegitimacy of the 14th Amendment in the same sense and to the same extent that she plays footsie with the illegitimacy of the State of West Virginia and the illegitimacy of the US Air Force. 000