{"id":7149,"date":"2017-02-15T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:25:59","slug":"gorsuch-worse-scalia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=7149","title":{"rendered":"GORSUCH IS WORSE THAN SCALIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

But both are\/were adherents of the utterly wacky, nonsensical doctrine of “Originalism,” which presumes than a citizen of 1789 would magically be able to comprehend current realities.<\/p>\n

“Originalism” is nothing but a smokescreen for the worst in arbitrary, self-serving contortions of legal logic–as we saw with Scalia’s written-at-a-scream, rhetorical and judicial flim-flam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But both are\/were adherents of the utterly wacky, nonsensical doctrine of “Originalism,” which presumes than a citizen of 1789 would magically be able to comprehend current realities. “Originalism” is nothing but a smokescreen for the worst in arbitrary, self-serving contortions … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}