[mfer]

In addition to politics is how they interpret the job of being a judge. Is it to judge a case on the laws that are written given the context they were written in? Is it to interpret laws based on a different context? This leads to different outcomes.

[throwaway48476]

Yes it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism

[s1artibartfast]

Originalism is a school of judicial philosophy. It is not the only one, and has fallen in and out of favor over time.