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A Cautiously Conservative Supreme Court – WSJ

By Thomas A. Smith

Yet it s true the court has entered a new phase one characterized by modest conservative victories, unpredictable alignments of justices, and surprising unanimous judgments. The driving forces are doctrinal differences among the court s six conservatives, Chief Justice John Roberts s preference for incremental rather than sweeping change, and the embrace across ideological lines of the principle that judges should follow the language of the law. As Justice Elena Kagan said in 2015, We re all textualists now.

via www.wsj.com

What would a judge be other than a textualist? I always found that odd.