next morning and I’m still ticked about this. the default assumption here is that the parent who is provably lying about the abuse of her daughter is more credible about everything than the daughter

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good lord Lyman is trash

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right! there are at least 3 things here I think - acknowledging that originalism is a project at all, rather than just using the neutral objective theory language - acknowledging the mismatch with the Constitution - doing so plainly even one of those of is rare, and here we have all three!

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This is incoherent if you try and understand it through the lens of civil rights or antidiscrimination law, but completely bog-standard and normal if seen through the framework of diaspora nationalism.

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El-Sayed: "People like Vance think America is too small for some of us. I think America is big enough. America has been big enough include people whose families came, were here before anybody else showed up, or who were brought here despite themselves. His view of America is small -- small like him"

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