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Textual Healing? Gorsuch, Scalia, Hugo Black and the Words of Law on the Supreme Court

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Episode • Apr 13, 2017 • 1h 5m

The textualism of conservative Justice Scalia and liberal Justice Hugo Black is contrasted and compared as we anticipate the arrival of Neil Gorsuch to the Court. Gorsuch is a committed textualist. What does that mean? We look at that, we look at all of the different ways judges think, and the (often straw-manned) concept of living constitution.

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