WALZ: A “Living Document”
Walz has said: “I do believe the Constitution is a living document. I think Jefferson’s quote, about as mankind progressed and as technology progressed, the document was to progress with it, [unintelligible] how you deal with these things.”
BIDEN: A “Living Document”
In January 2020, Joe Biden said: “The people that I will appoint to the court, are people who have a view of the Constitution as a living document.”
TRUMP: Pledges to Appoint only Originalist Judges
President Trump pledged to appoint only originalists as judges — i.e., those who strive to discern the original intent of the Framers of the Constitution. Toward that end, he appointed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. And he applied this same standard to his appointments of 230+ additional judges to the federal bench.