They are not "originalist", they are Confederates

[edhopper]

They believe State's Rights have priority of Federal Law and that it should be up to the States to interpret the Constitution for themselves. They are following the Constitution, but it's the Confederate Constitution.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Also, the Articles of Confederation were too weak

That's why we have a Constitution.

[Walleye]

2. The Civil War was never really over. The president was murdered and reconstruction was stopped

[misanthrope]

5. In order for Reconstruction to be successful

they would have had to dismantle Southern culture and that task is nearly impossible. It would have required forcible removal of the population into other parts of the nation where their culture couldn't dominate.

[Walleye]

6. Well they are still dominating

[misanthrope]

10. Because their culture continued to exist

That's why Reconstruction was a failure, as I tried to say. The Confederacy was a manifestation of the dominant culture in the Deep South and Tidewater, combined with Appalachian xenophobia. It then spread westward after the Civil War.

I don't know how you stop that apart from methods I find personally repulsive for the amount of suffering and heartache they create.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Good point!

[Bluethroughu]

4. Yes they are.

[Hortensis]

7. They're ultraconservatives using a phony rationale as an excuse

to oppose all laws they don't like. About as truly intellectually based as our cat's reaction to our neighbors' dogs, but they're able to dress it up in dense rhetoric.

[booley]

8. They are whateverists

They are whatever Gets them what they want

States Rights didn't mean crap when it came to guns. Republicans certainly didnt' support States Rights when it came to allowing gay marriage, decriminalizing drugs, or right to die laws

Look at Clarence Thomas. He wants to over turn Lawrence and Obergfell and Griswold next. A court case suspiciously absent from his list? Loving v Virginia.

The conservative judges are just like conservatives in general. Its about using power to get what you want.

[Mme. Defarge]

9. Except when it comes to states regulating

firearm safety.

[edhopper]

11. How else will you fight

the Northern Aggressors?

[Mme. Defarge]

12. Call me paranoid,

but I found this ruling to be very sinister.

[edhopper]

13. You are not

and it is.

[lindysalsagal]

14. Exactly.

If you want to live like it's 1776, buy a dark cabin in the woods nd go the eff away. Oh, and, btw-You can't take your cell phone, TV, electricity or running water, either. It's firewood and candles and muskets for you.

[Model35mech]

15. You say that as if you think it would be punishing.

It isn't even without a musket or other firearm.

Woodfires and light from oil-lamps is actually pretty nice replacing frequent electrical service interruption.

[uponit7771]

16. THANK YOU !!!

[Saboburns]

17. More Nazi than Confederate

Who not only aren't fazed by The Constitution, but want to destroy it.

They spend all day, everyday actively at war with The Constitution and at War with the majority of Americans.