| I consider myself to be both an originalist and a textualist. |
| It is a textualist claim that construes the meaning of the ACA by reading it holistically rather than by focusing opportunistically on a single provision thereof. |
| So a textualist could, in principle and within limits, allow both a politically liberal and a politically conservative reading of the Constitution's text. |
| That makes him a rather more complicated textualist than might originally be supposed. |
| Before he could get an answer, Justice Antonin Scalia, the grumpy textualist, chastised the debtor's lawyer, Christopher P. Burke, for not including the words of the relevant law in his main brief. |
| Friendly was more of a cautious purposivist than a textualist, and was willing to cite and rely on legislative history in some circumstances. |
