FP: In your book, you emphasize that Justice Thomas, more than any other of his colleagues, is an “Originalist.” Can you explain to our readers what exactly that means?
Holzer: Paraphrasing former Attorney General Ed Meese, Originalism is a method of interpreting the Constitution on the basis of what any given provision meant to the people who wrote it, whether the original Bill of Rights, the later Fourteenth Amendment, or for that matter any amendment since. Meese rightly observed that “A constitution that is viewed as only what the judges say it is, is no longer a constitution in the true sense.” It’s my emphasis on the word “judges,” meaning that they aren’t the ones who wrote what they’re now interpreting.
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