You may agree or disagree with Justice Scalia, but he was not one to sit around trying to figure out legislative intent when reading a statute (http://scholars

You may agree or disagree with Justice Scalia, but he was not one to sit around trying to figure out legislative intent when reading a statute (http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1486&context=mulr http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...). His take was that the legislature spoke through the statutes text, and after that it was up to the judges.