Originally Posted by
Masterofreality
Uh, Kavanaugh didn't write that. Alito did. And where was anyone called a "captain of a pirate ship"?
What Alito said was "The Courts opinion is like a Pirate Ship. It sails under a textualist flag, but what it actually represents is a theory of statutory interpretation that Justice Scalia excoriated--the theory that courts should "update" old statutes so that they better reflect the current values of society".
What Alito was getting at was that "sex" (gender) should have been defined as it had already been established as referring to gender in a 1964 decision, and there are now over 100 Federal Laws written and in effect for "sex" protection as defined by that 1964 decision. He was stating that the majority decision while portrayed as a decision based upon preexisting "text" it actually was an update of that "text" and that now, since this was an update, that there was a slippery slope where those 100 federal laws could be challenged, thereby creating chaos.
So where is the personal attack?