• @_pi@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

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

      • @_pi@lemmy.ml
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        337 months 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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          377 months 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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            197 months ago

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

            • Prehensile_cloaca
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              47 months ago

              John Roberts’ SCOTUS will be remembered as the implements of America’s downfall.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      327 months 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.