• _pi@lemmy.ml
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    Yeah Antonin Scalia was a textualist until he wasn’t, until he was again, until he wasn’t.

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        Listen everything Scalia wrote was ideologically consistent because it used the same verbiage as Bush V Gore, “limited to present circumstances”.

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          ah, a personal favorite,

          this ruling sets no precedent because I decided it doesn’t

          The kind of thing produced by a very real and legitimate court system and definitely not just 9 unaccountable, unelected elders making decisions on a whim.

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      Every “originalist”/“textualist” is this way. It’s an inherently dishonest position based entirely on finding any excuse to push reaction through the judiciary.