Ted Cruz Spars With Pete Buttigieg Over Meaning of Constitutional OriginalismRepublican Senator Ted Cruz debated constitutional originalism with Pete Buttigieg on Twitter Tuesday morning, after unveiling a proposed amendment to prohibit Democrats from adding seats to the U.S. Supreme Court following next month's election. An "originalist" is someone who believes interpretations of constitutional text should rely on the authors' original intentions when statutes were first drafted.
"The Left keeps repeating this idiotic arg: 'Ha! Ha! If you're an originalist, you can't amend the Constitution.' No, Art VII of the Constitution lays out the process of amendments (e.g., Bill of Rights). Following that process is HOW you do it—not judges just rewriting the text," Cruz wrote on Tuesday, responding to an earlier tweet from Buttigieg, a former Democratic presidential candidate and the previous mayor of South Bend, Indiana, posted on Monday night.............
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