Throughout Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings, one word kept coming up: originalism. It’s this word that Democrats are now trying to hold against her.

Barrett has described herself as an originalist and/or textualist, meaning her judicial philosophy is to stick to the original public meaning of the law and the Constitution.

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