"Why the Supreme Court Should Stop Fetishizing Dictionaries and Start Caring About Words"

doing textual analysis with only dictionaries is like doing law and economics with only a pocket calculator

More evidence that reductionists are often wrong, even if we assume for sake of argument their alleged reasoning process. The Canning case seems like a lost cause, but the discussion underlines that it still is aggravating since it is at least a close question, one that should be in this case entrusted to the political branches as applied.