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  • noun Plural form of textualist.

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  • The majority opinion of Justice Clarence Thomas was joined by all of the Justices who could plausibly be called textualists, including Chief Justice Roberts.

    FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles 2009

  • The majority opinion of Justice Clarence Thomas was joined by all of the Justices who could plausibly be called textualists, including Chief Justice Roberts.

    FindLaw News - Top Stories 2009

  • Robert: What continues to amaze me is how you "textualists" so blithely invent, whole cloth, connotations which simply aren't present in the text of your ideological opponents.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Robert: What continues to amaze me is how you "textualists" so blithely invent, whole cloth, connotations which simply aren't present in the text of your ideological opponents.

    Balkinization 2006

  • What continues to amaze me is how you "textualists" so blithely invent, whole cloth, connotations which simply aren't present in the text of your ideological opponents.

    Balkinization 2006

  • What continues to amaze me is how you "textualists" so blithely invent, whole cloth, connotations which simply aren't present in the text of your ideological opponents.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Robert: What continues to amaze me is how you "textualists" so blithely invent, whole cloth, connotations which simply aren't present in the text of your ideological opponents.

    Balkinization 2006

  • What continues to amaze me is how you "textualists" so blithely invent, whole cloth, connotations which simply aren't present in the text of your ideological opponents.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Scalia, Thomas and Rehnquist - and Roberts and Alito in their Circuit Court decisions - use words and terms like "textualists", "judicial restraint" and "stare decisis" when it suits them; when it does not, they assert the Court and the President's rights over the rights of the Congress.

    Martin Garbus: Senate Should Delay Alito Vote: 45 Pages of Unreleased Documents Tell Us Who Alito Is 2008

  • What continues to amaze me is how you "textualists" so blithely invent, whole cloth, connotations which simply aren't present in the text of your ideological opponents.

    Balkinization 2006

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