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Old 01-31-2017, 07:52 PM   #2178
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Originally Posted by FiftyBelow View Post
It is not the job of judges to ensure the compatibility of laws with contemporary values and beliefs, that is the job of politicians. As Scalia often said, garbage in, garbage out. A bad law results in bad outcomes. If people don't like bad laws, they should lobby their politicians to change it. It's a democracy after all.
Provide they aren't originalists out of convenience. Gorsuch ruling that corps are people under the RFRA really stretches any textualist interpretation by willfully ignoring the definition of person that was used at the time the legislation was passed in favour of a much broader interpretation which allowed him to rule as he wanted to.
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