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Re:Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up i... by ChuckMcM on Saturday August 11, 2018 @12:51PM (#17740421)
You are mixing two concepts here, perhaps unintentionally. The supreme court has a standards document against which it evaluates the laws (the constitution, whether it is state (SCOC) or country (SCOTUS)). I have not read a decision where they evaluate "what the legislature 'meant'" when they make their rulings, although they do sometimes comment on that.
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Re:Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up i... by hyperpape on Saturday August 11, 2018 @12:54PM (#17740435)
The Supreme Court absolutely interprets the meaning of federal law passed by the legislature. Whether they do it by appeal to authorial intent or something else is a matter of jurisprudential philosophy.

For an example of talking about what the legislators intended, see King v. Burwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_v._Burwell

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