# Are you rethinking Judicial activism? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 15, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-rethinking-judicial-activism/944357 "2021-06-15T23:54:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 42
**Author:** ![oldoaktree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ccd318/32.png) [@oldoaktree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldoaktree)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-rethinking-judicial-activism/944357/42 "2021-06-16T02:03:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Which isn’t surprising because originalism pretty much guarantees judges will interject their own beliefs. A textualist will read the law and go by what the words say. An originalist will read the same law and then try to guess what the words mean. It’s not surprising that when they invent these meanings, they reflect their ideological beliefs. How else would somebody like Scalia be able to find a defense of corporate speech in the First Amendment - which was written in 1789. I can assure you that whatever James Madison’s original thoughts were, they didn’t include corporations any more than they including cable television or the internet. where is the right to privacy in the Constitution? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-rethinking-judicial-activism/944357)._