Supreme Court Justices

[TJ in Oregon]

Interpreting the Constitution should have nothing to do with one's political opinions (abnormal).

I agree. Unfortunately, the precedent in the US is to interpret words to mean something other than their plain textual meaning. That means wishful thinking and politics guide a significant fraction of hot-button rulings.

[TJ in Oregon]

I would rather our justices be more pragmatic and less originalist. Conservatives are usually more original than not and liberals are usually more pragmatic than not. So the justice I would rather go with is likely to be liberal.

Doesn't "pragmatic" in the context of judges mostly mean to rig the premises to come to the conclusion the judge wants?