A panel of state Supreme Court chief justices agreed that subscribing to any one distinct method of evaluating the law, particularly originalism, is ineffective.

In a panel on judicial decision-making Friday, Chief Justices Max Baer of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Donald W. Beatty of the South Carolina Supreme Court, Maureen O’Connor of the Ohio Supreme Court, and Paul A. Suttell of the Rhode Island Supreme Court discussed the factors they weigh when analyzing their respective state constitutions, from plain text to legislative history and intent to the consequences of their decisions.

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