This. Conservatives have been OBSESSED with textualism and originalism. They claim they just want to properly apply the law as written. However, as we have seen, the left simply wants to rewrite the law. As Sean Davis recently tweeted, the conservative legal movement is dead. Josh Hawley gave a similar speech on the senate floor.
So with that, we need to be up front and honest: the role of a judge is not to apply the law as written, rather, his job is to rewrite the law in the conservative image, and nothing less.
This. Conservatives have been OBSESSED with textualism and originalism. They claim they just want to properly apply the law as written. However, as we have seen, the left simply wants to rewrite the law. As Sean Davis recently tweeted, the conservative legal movement is dead. Josh Hawley gave a similar speech on the senate floor.
So with that, we need to be up front and honest: the role of a judge is not to apply the law as written, rather, his job is to rewrite the law in the conservative image, and nothing less.