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Constitutional Law

Sep. 18, 2023

Part I on interpreting our Constitution: the traditional approaches

"Originalism" and "textualism" might indeed be gimmicks - at least for some of the Justices some of the time.

Myron Moskovitz

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UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hal

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I had a dream!

No, not that dream. Instead, it’s a dream that haunts many a law prof who teaches or taught constitutional law, as I did.

The classroom gave me a nice little platform to criticize our lofty Supreme Court.

Fun stuff, but it left me with an unspoken, nagging question to myself: “OK, wise guy. Enough of your carping about how other people do it. What would

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