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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“Gorsuch, who is the most textual-oriented judge on the Court,”

He combines textualism with originalism looking for the interpretation at the time of the writing.


28 posted on 04/20/2026 1:24:55 PM PDT by TexasGator (-11..)
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To: TexasGator
He combines textualism with originalism looking for the interpretation at the time of the writing.

I personally think this is a great case for pointing to the distinction between those two schools of thought. Maybe highlighting the fault line of "Oops, we passed a stupid law we worded badly, and we didn't actually mean what it says".

I think Trump should lose on textualism, but win on originalism. As those terms were used by Scalia.

37 posted on 04/20/2026 1:35:57 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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