Comment Re:Actually makes good sense (Score 1) 702
The Constitution is not a living document. It's not open to interpretation. The vast majority of the bullshit the Federal government is throwing upon is isn't the slightest bit legal.
The assertions that underlie a variety of government behaviors are often quite weak; but what would it even mean for a document to be 'not open to interpretation'? Short of a superhuman AI that is the authoritative interpreter of itself, or a not-necessarily-finite document that manages to address all questions within its remit, without ambiguity or contradiction, neither over nor underdetermined, there is no separation between 'reading' and 'interpretation'.
This doesn't mean that all interpretations are valid, or that some aren't trivially bullshit; but there is no such thing as a 'non-interpreted' conclusion from the constitution. Your 'originalists' (allegedly, their adherence to this is sometimes...questionable) attempt to interpret the document as much like one of the people who wrote it would as they are able to, while other judicial schools do not endorse this as an objective; but 'interpret the constitution while pretending as hard as possible to be Thomas Jefferson' is 'interpretation' just as much as any other technique.