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"The scrambled plain text was found, but without the coding method or the key. This is a very important distinction," he separately told a news conference in November.

Just as a matter of plain text, as Judge James Graves argued in his dissent from the 5th Circuit’s decision not to take the case en banc, the day of an “election” is the day that the voters cast their ballots.

Or can they rest a decision on the plain text alone?

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, explained how the plain text of both the ADA and Section 504 “reaches cases involving a failure to accommodate, even where no ill will or animus towards people with disabilities is present.”

What we have here is a classic dispute over textualism, the theory that judges should look exclusively to the plain text of the statute to discover its meaning.