> Uh, that's mostly not what judges spend their professional careers doing or what lawyers spend their academic careers doing. I disagree, based on my academic

> Uh, that's mostly not what judges spend their professional careers doing or what lawyers spend their academic careers doing. I disagree, based on my academic experience preparing to be a lawyer and my nerdy conversations with my friends who are judges. You could just learn the rote practice and skip jurisprudence entirely, but everyone on the supreme court understands the phrase "canon of construction" by this point in their career, along with various other meta-rulemaking principles.