No Supreme Court nominee today dares disavow originalism or declare his or her sympathy with a “living Constitution” philosophy. When Elena Kagan faced Senate confirmation for the Supreme Court in 2010, she went out of her way to praise originalism as an interpretive method. As the future justice explained: “Sometimes [the framers] laid down very specific rules. Sometimes they laid down broad principles. Either way, we apply what they say, what they meant to do. So in that sense, we are all originalists.”
Indeed we are. And for that, we should thank Robert Bork.
via The Original Originalist by Adam Freedman – City Journal.