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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.
(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."
Its decision, which Tribe defended before the court earlier this month, is almost certain to be reversed, probably on textualist grounds.
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.
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.