This Video Just Posted Has Some Vitally Important Information About The Sleazy White Supremacist-Segregationist Origins Of The "Originalist" Ideology

 

In Part 2, The Court of History’s Sidney Blumenthal & Sean Wilentz are joined by acclaimed historian and journalist Jill Lepore to discuss her book We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution. They explore the book’s argument that the U.S. Constitution—far from being a static artifact—is undergirded by a history of amendment, contestation, and possibility.

Note especially her making the point I have been making for years now that the Supreme Court has been the major force in destroying all of the hard won progress made against the anti-equality-anti-reform-anti-progress forces of white supremacy,  oligarchy and male supremacy.  The Supreme Court has been the foremost anti-democratic force in our history.   She mentions some of the same books I've relied on heavily.