As Eldon recalls, the server asked, “Is that Mr. President? You’re the guy running for State Senate, aren’t you?” Eldon has also tried to use the account as a way to interact with political icons. During our interview, he excitedly flipped his phone around to show me that Massachusetts congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, a proud member of “the Squad,” was following BlkThought on Instagram. Back in 2020, he’d sent her a message asking if she’d make a Zoom appearance for his State Senate campaign. It still took another roughly 100 years for originalism to develop a stranglehold on American politics. That happened largely in reaction to the Warren court — the period from 1953 to 1969 whenChief Justice Earl Warren In a "Nation of Immigrants," Who Chooses Who Belongs?