originalist
Noun
Meaning
One who is original.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
jeffersonian
fundamentalist
classicist
conventionalist
die-hard traditionalist
genuine traditionalist
old-school purist
orthodox adherent
stickler for tradition
true purist
authentic purist
hardline traditionalist
puritanical traditionalist
rigid traditionalist
strict traditionalist
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I'm not going to rip all that up. It's water over the dam. The people have gotten used to it. You know, that's what Stare Decisis is all about. In other words, I am an originalist. I am a textualist. I am not a nut.
You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.