• Meron35@lemmy.world
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    The irony is that Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas are (in)famous for being the most textualist of the judges, where they pride themselves on not interpreting the words, and instead follow the law as it is written.

    Except for the clear cut case of birthright citizenship.

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      Ah I see, well to be fair us legal doctrine is not really much more than fancy word juggling in my opinion anyway