Clint

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Originalist.

When interpreting a constitution or a law, a judge must respect its original meaning. A judge who “interprets” a law to mean something else is legislating from the bench.

Clint will be a justice in the mold of Thomas and Alito. He follows what’s called “original meaning originalism,” meaning he interprets the law by giving the words the meaning they had at the time they were adopted.

As Justice Alito has explained: “Originalism is the idea that the Constitution has a fixed meaning; it doesn’t change. It means what people would have understood it to mean at the time it was written.”

As a prosecutor Clint has worked on dozens of appeals involving novel questions of constitutional law. As a justice, he will use his extensive experience and knowledge of legal history to write opinions that respect the original public meaning of the texts he interprets.