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It's surprising that Tribe's essay doesn't discuss his textualist argument for the unconstitutionality of Colorado's Amendment 2, which forbade cities to enact anti-discrimination ordinances based on sexual orientation.
And Scalia is right to object to the caricature of the textualist/originalist judge as wooden and unimaginative--nontextualists, after all, can be plenty wooden and unimaginative themselves.
(Scalia offered a different textualist reading of the Equal Protection Clause, grounding his arch dissent firmly in majoritarianism--"The Court has mistaken a Kulturkampf for a fit of spite."
Not an airtight argument (all anti-discrimination laws pick and choose among protected classes), but a cleverly textualist one--and one that seems to have helped convince a majority of the court to strike down the amendment, despite a lack of helpful precedent.
Its decision, which Tribe defended before the court earlier this month, is almost certain to be reversed, probably on textualist grounds.