'Foolish and exhausting': Analyst claims Supreme Court reduced the law to a 'petty game'

'Foolish and exhausting': Analyst claims Supreme Court reduced the law to a 'petty game'

The conservative justices of the Supreme Court proved beyond a shadow of a doubt this term that their fealty to "originalism" is a facade for their political agenda, Jess Coleman wrote for The New Republic in a scathing analysis published on Tuesday."Make no mistake, originalism has always been a sham — and always applied selectively in the pursuit of reactionary ends," wrote Coleman. However, this year, the justices proved the ideology "in cris…