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"Gorsuch is a partisan hack" (Jackson)

A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’...
Rose Volcanic Crater
  07/14/25
ffriend, you debate "textualism" versus "purp...
purple mexican
  07/14/25
Jackson is an absolute retard lol @ citing her
henna cruel-hearted stag film
  07/14/25
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Rose Volcanic Crater
  07/14/25
Just because he has a Pillow GF? that's mean of her
Translucent drunken sweet tailpipe
  07/14/25
“Takes one to know one.” Gorsuch, concurring
sepia set mental disorder
  07/14/25
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Jade stead multi-billionaire
  07/14/25
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Rose Volcanic Crater
  07/21/25
Mark Joseph Stern, lol.
Provocative hairless theater
  07/21/25
Wait until you see the mental gymnastics Thomas does with &l...
Ocher motley lodge
  07/21/25
Peter Schuck, lefty from Yale, wrote an entire book supporti...
Provocative hairless theater
  07/21/25
Wow, he wrote a book? Is the book so good that it changes wh...
Ocher motley lodge
  07/22/25
when it comes to smuggling in the judge's personal preferenc...
Provocative hairless theater
  07/21/25
*Gorsuch uses his Warhammer 40k figurines to game out with B...
Translucent drunken sweet tailpipe
  07/22/25


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Date: July 14th, 2025 3:23 AM
Author: Rose Volcanic Crater

A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.

https://archive.ph/VOVFE#selection-1453.0-1499.0

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49099625)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 3:25 AM
Author: purple mexican

ffriend, you debate "textualism" versus "purposivism" as if these are competing philosophies. You are debating the color of the paint on a cage.

Pure textualism is not a "potent weapon"[cite: 1, 2]. It is a compliance protocol. It allows the system administrator to point to the code—to Clause 9.2 — and claim the resulting human-asset liquidation was a "textual inevitability." It converts raw power into procedure.

Gorsuch is not a "hack." Jackson is not a savior. hey are high-level functionaries, nodes in the network running different scripts that compile to the same output: the perpetuation of the $y$tem. One runs `textualism.exe`, the other runs `purposivism.exe`. Both programs serve The Mahchine™.

The law is not "malleable." It is perfectly rigid in its ultimate function. The intellectual debate is merely the loading screen while the program executes in the background.

This is fine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49099626)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 5:31 PM
Author: henna cruel-hearted stag film

Jackson is an absolute retard

lol @ citing her

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49101128)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: Rose Volcanic Crater



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49101034)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 5:08 PM
Author: Translucent drunken sweet tailpipe

Just because he has a Pillow GF? that's mean of her

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49101039)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 5:30 PM
Author: sepia set mental disorder

“Takes one to know one.” Gorsuch, concurring

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49101119)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 5:31 PM
Author: Jade stead multi-billionaire



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49101124)



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Date: July 21st, 2025 5:46 PM
Author: Rose Volcanic Crater



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49119739)



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Date: July 21st, 2025 5:48 PM
Author: Provocative hairless theater

Mark Joseph Stern, lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49119742)



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Date: July 21st, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: Ocher motley lodge

Wait until you see the mental gymnastics Thomas does with “textualism” to rule in Trump’s favor on birthright

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49119745)



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Date: July 21st, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: Provocative hairless theater

Peter Schuck, lefty from Yale, wrote an entire book supporting the theory Trump will be pushing. admittedly, though, ending BRC should involve the Congress + POTUS.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49119778)



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Date: July 22nd, 2025 9:25 AM
Author: Ocher motley lodge

Wow, he wrote a book? Is the book so good that it changes what the constitution actually says?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49121100)



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Date: July 21st, 2025 6:22 PM
Author: Provocative hairless theater

when it comes to smuggling in the judge's personal preferences under the guise of interpretation there is nothing that comes close to liberal purposivism. i realize that the Scalia approach has its limitations and does not prevent "smuggling" either, but smuggling is much harder under the Scalia approach.

the odds of Jackson convincing anyone on this point through intellectual debate is zero.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49119800)



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Date: July 22nd, 2025 9:45 AM
Author: Translucent drunken sweet tailpipe

*Gorsuch uses his Warhammer 40k figurines to game out with Barron the subjugation of Jackson's home planet and the extermination of her tribe*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750162&forum_id=2).#49121145)