Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School) has posted Privileges or Immunities: A Judicially Restrained and Originalist Understanding on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Conservative constitutionalism was born in a practice of judicial restraint, informed by originalism as its theory of interpretation. Dobbs is an obvious implication of both. But building on the work of Niko Bowie, this essay argues that those same principles should entail Congress's 14th Amendment power, under the "privileges or immunities clause," to determine federal privileges or immunities — including the rights recognized in Roe, and a power to regulate the scope of the 'right to bear arms.' Such an understanding makes sense of the original meaning of "privileges or immunities" as well as The Slaughterhouse Cases, and it affirms a principle of judicial restraint. The essay ends with recommendations about how Congress might best reassert its 14th Amendment authority and with a call for less partial originalism in the interpretation of the Civil War Amendments especially.
Highly recommended.
