{"id":1574,"date":"2023-12-12T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print\/red-herring-history-an-analysis-of-why-dobbs-is-not-originalism\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:36","slug":"red-herring-history-an-analysis-of-why-dobbs-is-not-originalism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-21-issue-2-summer-2023\/red-herring-history-an-analysis-of-why-dobbs-is-not-originalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Herring History: An Analysis of Why Dobbs is Not Originalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">Several of the Supreme Court\u2019s recent opinions have brought originalism under fire, but none more so than <span class=\"s2\"><i>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/i><\/span>. Many now criticize the originalist framework as providing a cramped view of civil rights for groups that were marginalized at the Founding. Given the conclusion that \u201cwe\u2019re all originalists now,&#8221;<span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span>the dominance of originalism would thus seem to be cause for deep concern. But is originalism really to blame? <span class=\"s5\"><i>Dobbs <\/i><\/span>has been criticized by many originalists themselves, who decry the decision as rooted in non-originalist reasoning.<span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span>So the question remains: is <span class=\"s5\"><i>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization <\/i><\/span>really originalist? Or is there something else underlying the conservative majority\u2019s decision? This paper argues that <span class=\"s5\"><i>Dobbs <\/i><\/span>is not grounded in originalism, but rather in tradition-based substantive due process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/Red-Herring-History_Simon.pdf\">Red Herring History: An Analysis of Why <em>Dobbs<\/em> is Not Originalism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of the Supreme Court\u2019s recent opinions have brought originalism under fire, but none more so than Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization. Many now criticize the originalist framework as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":1543,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1574","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1574\/revisions\/1867"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}