I blame Textualists for the existence of legalese. Laws and contracts are so damn hard to read because they need to close every possible conceivable loophole.

I blame Textualists for the existence of legalese. Laws and contracts are so damn hard to read because they need to close every possible conceivable loophole. You get sentences that use multiple synonyms of the same verb because someone is going to come up with some strange incredibly-specific difference between them. Imagine some parent telling their kid to not jump on the bed, and the kid says "I'm not jumping, I'm hopping!". That's a kid that's going to grow up being a Textualist. > Textualists say that intent is unknowable I think Textualists are claiming this in bad faith, knowing damn well that intent is very well knowable, but argue otherwise to advance their agenda.