Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is calling the Constitution a living document, saying its framers wrote it to last through ever-changing circumstances.
Her remarks in an exchange with Sen. Patrick Leahy on the second day of confirmation hearings touched on suggestions by Republican critics that she would legislate from the bench.
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"Either way," she said, "we apply what they say, what they meant to do, so in that sense we are all originalists."
>> “Either way,” she said, “we apply what they say, what they meant to do, so in that sense we are all originalists.”
Holy crap!!!