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By Alex Henderson During the Bill Clinton years, the term âoriginalismâ was primarily used in connection with two far-right U.S. Supreme Court justices: Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia. Others on the High Court, from the late liberal Clinton appointee Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Justice Sandra Day OâConnor to Justice Anthony Kennedy â a right-wing libertarian and Ronald Reagan appointee who was fiscally conservative yet protective of gay rights and abortion rights â rejected originalism, which is often synonymous with far-right social conservatism. The Clinton years are long gon…
