Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is worried the originalist and textualist tendencies of the majority of justices will push people to reject the Constitution.
The current conservative justices on the high court take a “constitutional and statutory interpretation” of interpreting the Constitution, differing from that of Breyer. He is concerned that recent decisions, notably the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, are not how the public wants the Constitution interpreted in a court of law.
“We will have a Constitution that no one wants,” Breyer told Politico.
This week, Breyer released a book titled Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism, explaining his views on constitutional interpretation. In his interview with Politico, he said he doesn’t think the way Republican-appointed justices interpret the Constitution is serving the country well.
“Over time, if I’m right,
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