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Liberals have generally disagreed with originalism because they ve said, so what if that s what it meant hundreds of years ago. we live in the real world. we have to take into account political realities. if the original meaning of the constitution requires us to not have paper money or something that s just totally unworkable in modern society, well, we have to interpret it in a way that s consistent with how our society works. you re right that originalists say we have to follow the text no matter what the implications are. so i do think that these are influential law professors. you know, depending on how these trials play out, how the mood of the country plays out in the coming months, i think it could be taken more or less seriously. but i think we could for sure see some strange new respect for originalism among liberals and some skepticism of this originalist logic among conservatives. and potentially some lawyers representing the former president in a different kind of court ....