@Vanessa_ABee partisan valence of standing doctrine over time is interesting. Brandeis a big proponent of limiting access to fed court during , then you get liberals fighting to expand standing, now its starting to come back around
@kevin_tobia Did you listen to the oral argument in the bump stock case? Kagan seemed to employ this "functionalist textualism" when discussing whether the bump stock converted semi-automatics into a machine gun. Interested to see if those that joined her here join her there.
@beau_baumann Is there a specific argument/opinion? Gorsuch asked a q (during i think Pulsifer oral arg) that made me think he views any invocation of purpose as a problem