It’s no secret why political conservatives are Amy Coney Barrett’s biggest champions. Barrett is a jurisprudential originalist, and most conservatives are originalists too.
The relationship between conservatism and originalism may be largely self-evident, but it’s worth considering what lies at the heart of both -isms to understand better what links conservatives to judges such as Barrett.
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