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“The idea that a purported original meaning is the sole proper basis for constitutional interpretation developed as a direct backlash against Brown v. Board of Education. When the Supreme Court struck down segregated schools as unconstitutional in 1954, members of Congress who represented states in the former Confederacy invoked the framers in efforts to ground their resistance to the ruling in law: The founding generation didn’t think the Fourteenth Amendment prevented states from racially segregating schools, they argued, so the Court could not now say otherwise. This became the conservative legal movement’s go-to constitutional rationale for maintaining systems of oppression. In other words, originalism was designed to be used exactly as Damsky is using it: to preserve and promote white supremacy.”

https://ballsandstrikes.org/legal-culture/law-school-trump-judge-john-badalamenti/