[avs733]

lets just drop the pretense of even using that phrase

To me it is disqualifying for those analyses being taken seriously. If you are claiming that you are doing no interpretation and others are, that just not credible within the law. Of COURSE they are interpreting - that's literally the job. The idea that you aren't interpreting and instead are only divining what others meant is so incredible that it needs to stop being repeated.

Stop repeating the propaganda because it just normalizes a ridiculous phrase.

[oceanghost]

My point was, the powers that be will make any excuse so long as it increases state power.

[avs733]

Powers will use any excuse, the excuse is a distraction. It’s much clearer and more effective to properly name what they are doing rather than indulge their demand of what ever silly term they invent to justify it.

There is no such thing as textualism, there is just (1) a belief that your are doing a thing you labeled textualism but is philosophically incompatible with the concept of the law or (2) lying. Anything from the right in the us as it relates to the constitution is (2).

[vkou]

And in this country, 'state power' often includes 'the power of the states (good state power) to tyrannize their residents as they see fit, without any federal (bad state power) oversight.'