How to Use originalism in a Sentence

originalism

noun

• How the scourge of originalism is taking over the Supreme Court.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• Views on originalism Kennedy has a different view.
  — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
• Curtis had taken Taney’s uninformed originalism and thrown it in his face.
  — David W. Blight Max-O-Matic, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• The Supreme Court is destroying originalism in order to save it.
  — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
• At the end of the day, this comes down to originalism, constitutionalism.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2018
• Now, though, originalism is in its ascendancy on the Supreme Court.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• Joshua Zeitz gets the law and history wrong in attacking originalism.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 30 June 2022
• The fourth dispute—and perhaps the most interesting one—is over originalism itself.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2019
• The court’s three liberals dissented in all three cases, calling originalism cramped and wooden.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2022
• Breyer sums up textualism and originalism as attempts to make judicial reasoning a science and to make law a list of rules.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• So why is Wilentz so interested in a form of antislavery originalism?
  — Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• But, in fact, Gorsuch’s opinion can be said to have used the textualist method—derived from the plain language of the statute—rather than originalism.
  — The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• Tillman and Blackman’s version of originalism requires us to act as though, once in office, the founders were capable of doing no wrong.
  — Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Slate Magazine, 17 July 2017
• Dennie isn’t the first to note this tension between originalism and the group identities of those who were excluded from the original compact.
  — Kenneth W. MacK, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• One of these arguments holds that originalism is essential to a real interpretation of any text.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• The Fed case is the most prominent example so far of how history and tradition destroy originalism to save it.
  — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
• Under originalism, the court could reverse Griswold and let states ban contraception.
  — William Falk, The Week, 19 Dec. 2021
• Some current justices adhere to the Scalia method of legal interpretation, known as originalism, and his barbed style.
  — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 21 May 2021
• Whether the president knew it or not, originalism sounds the death knell for his executive order ending birthright citizenship.
  — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026
• Whether the president knew it or not, originalism sounds the death knell for his executive order ending birthright citizenship.
  — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
• The court would have applied the theory of the unitary executive, which the conservatives claim to be a product of originalism.
  — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
• To be sure, that won’t make originalism the most persuasive theory for how to interpret the Constitution.
  — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
• To be sure, that won’t make originalism the most persuasive theory for how to interpret the Constitution.
  — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026
• By the nineteen-eighties, originalism had become the dominant legal ideology of the right.
  — Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 13 May 2022
• As a scholar and a jurist, Scalia was the chief expositor of the judicial philosophy known as originalism.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• Then maybe the whole world — not just constitutional lawyers like me — would conclude that originalism is a terrible way to organize the affairs of a modern economy.
  — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
• But Justice Amy Coney Barrett, for the second time in two weeks, took issue with the brand of originalism favored by some of her colleagues.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2024
• Dennie has no truck with those liberals, such as Justice Jackson, who have sought to reclaim originalism from conservatives.
  — Kenneth W. MacK, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• To put it bluntly, originalism itself might not have survived the disaster of abolishing Fed independence.
  — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
• In both her dissents and concurrences, Thomas, the court’s only other Black member and its leading proponent of originalism, has been one of her main targets.
  — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 9 July 2026