Alito wrote an indignant dissent. He compared Gorsuch’s opinion to a pirate ship, flying the false flag of Scalian textualism.
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Alito wrote an indignant dissent. He compared Gorsuch’s opinion to a pirate ship, flying the false flag of Scalian textualism.
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Roberts surely also realizes the Alito position is absurd. He cares deeply about judicial restraint, another Scalian principle that is increasingly ignored by activist conservatives.
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s silence hints that she may turn out to be the truest Scalian on the court: textualist in statutes but originalist in constitutional law.
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