No, it just means that written law matters. If you don't want originalism, you don't want democracy; you just want unelected judges to make the laws without regard to what the people's representatives wrote down.https://twitter.com/umairh/status/1316097533270265856 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
No, that's textualism. Originalism is trying to divine what that disparate group of folks thought way back when and then trying to determine what they would think of this current issue that is well outside of what they could have possibly been thinking about at the time.
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Replying to @JoshuaCHStokes
No, originalism is literally just textualism plus time.
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