While textualists want to only focus on the actual text of the statute, the purpose of statutory interpretation, in my ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Justice Scalia and Judge Robert Katzmann on how the Judicial branch interprets statutes. Justice Scalia and Judge Robert Katzmann on how the Judicial ...

In 2015, Justice Elena Kagan gave the late Justice Antonin Scalia credit for ushering in a new method of statutory interpretation that emphasized the central importance of a statute's text. Indeed, it ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that only the president and attorney general can interpret the law. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: Trump's Feb. 18, ...

ONE of the most familiar facts concerning our political system is the division of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government. Hardly less familiar is the ...

The ACCA statute enacted in 1986 has long produced difficulty and conflict among lower federal courts and the Supreme Court’s justices. Indeed, inconsistent and unpredictable applications of a ...

In our Constitutional scheme it is fundamentally not the role of unelected, life-tenured federal judges to legislate from the bench. Rather, it is the role of the judge to precisely interpret and ...