It's been more than a week since Originalists Against Trump issued their public statement opposing the election of Donald Trump. William Baude of the University of Chicago Law School and Stephen Sachs of Duke Law School organized the project; both worked on drafts of the statement, and Sachs also collected signatures from lawyers and scholars. Twenty-nine signed the statement. That number has risen to 60, with more likely to come.
The signatories describe themselves as "originalists." As such they are "committed to the original meaning of the Constitution." They do not say how the original meaning is discerned in a particular context, but in the common understanding of most originalists today (or at least in Justice Antonin Scalia's, the leading originalist of our time) it is pursued by asking how the text at issue was understood by the society that adopted it.
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