"Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death"

Eric Segall:

I bring all of this up again because of a new article about Machen sent to me by historian Austin Steelman titled: “The Birth of the Dead Constitution: Arthur Machen Jr.’s Early Twentieth-Century Originalism.” Steelman credits me with shedding new light on this article and agrees that originalism that can discard known expected applications is an originalism capacious enough to justify virtually any result an originalist wants to reach (as the Roberts Court has shown again and again),

But what I did not know about Machen was that he was steadfastly opposed to equal rights for Black Americans and spent the decades after writing his article fighting against giving Black people the right to vote. He put forth obviously inaccurate views of the 15th Amendment that: it a) was