Definition of "textualist" [tex•tu•al•ist]

• A practitioner or adherent of textualism (noun)

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• "ME and the whole of 11th Amendment jurisprudence is an utter travesty and gives the lie to any so-called textualist or strict constructionist Justice who signed on to it.tarheelQuote"
• "In the discussion, Justice Stevens lamented a raft of Supreme Court decisions he said had expanded application of capital punishment, criticized the "textualist" legal approach championed by Justice Antonin Scalia and defended the opinion that most alienated him from many of his liberal admirers"
• "In many cases, including Lanning, the results that progressives support are just as, if not more, "textualist" than those advocated by Justice Scalia."