Sentence examples for read the statutes from inspiring English sources
Scalia and other textualists often assert that their approach drains their judgments of political content: they simply read the statutes, consult a dictionary, and render their verdicts.
3) Read the statute!" Judge Kavanagh wrote.
MR. TRIBE -- You can just read the statute in 1989 and it says "may".
I read the statute as applying to statewide results in statewide elections.
"I strongly align myself with the majority's quotation from Justice Frankfurter about the best tool of statutory interpretation: 1) Read the statute.
Justice Breyer rejected that interpretation, saying that "it seems natural to read the statute's word 'knowingly' as applying to all the subsequently listed elements of the crime".
One of them read the statute narrowly, saying it covered only simulations that are "virtually indistinguishable from unretouched photographs of actual children engaging in identical sexual conduct".
But in the same opinion, Justice Gonzalez suggested that while he was obligated to read the statute as he believed the legislature intended, his personal views were strongly opposed to abortion.
"Our argument has always been that if you read the statute literally, you can evict a grandmother who lives in Oakland if their granddaughter is smoking pot in New York," he said.
It is quite puzzling that the Justice Department, at some point during the 1980's, began to read the statute as limiting the Department's ability to obtain FISA orders if it intended to prosecute the targeted agents-even for foreign intelligence crimes.
