• _pi@lemmy.ml
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    edit-2
    6 hours ago

    Yeah Antonin Scalia was a textualist until he wasn't, until he was again, until he wasn't.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      4 hours ago

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

      • _pi@lemmy.ml
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        6 hours ago

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

        • Wheaties [she/her]
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          4 hours ago

          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.

          • barrbaric [he/him]
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            2 hours ago

            But remember, we can't stack the court with 50 zoomer maoists because people would "lose faith" in the "institutions".