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"Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That..." — Antonin Scalia

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.
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