Post #3284402

@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social It bothered me, and still bothers me, that SCOTUS has gone into hyper originalist mode in which the history or the US is measured by practices of the thirteen colonies. SCOTUS and others tend to forget that the vast geographic, and population, bulk of the US is on lands obtained from France, Spain, Mexico, Russia, and the Dole Pineapple company (and others). My own place, like many places, was originally held by aboriginal groups, then Spain, then Mexico. English was certainly not the first language here, and it is barely the dominant language spoken here now (Same for laws - SCOTUS in the Heller case kinda overlooked the firearms practices and laws that held in that vast part of the US that is not part of the thirteen colonies.)