Maybe divining and relying on “history and tradition” is not as easy or straightforward as Thomas and Alito would have you believe.
And maybe “history and tradition” is just a means to a particular desired end for these justices.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/amy-coney-barrett-clarence-thomas-sloppy-originalism.html
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