It is a bad exposition which corrupts the text.

Explanation

An exposition that distorts or rewrites the text it purports to interpret is condemned — the text must emerge from interpretation intact, not mutilated.

Where this applies

• The court's interpretation is actually distorting the plain text.
• The way they're reading this law rewrites it into something the legislature never wrote.
• An interpretation that corrupts the text it claims to be explaining is illegitimate.

See also

• 10.1.13 Blessed is the exposition by which anything is saved from destruction.
• 10.1.15 It is a venomous exposition which gnaws at the vitals of the text.