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Textualism invariably turns out to be a shuck: people who claim to be textualists are textual only when they can find a way to make textualism produce the answer they wanted.

Legal language is slippery enough that this is almost always possible. On the few occasions when it is not possible, we learn the truth. Scalia famously revealed his true colors on occasion.




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