most notably United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, have objected generally to the use of such evidence, rather than reliance on the literal language of the statute. They argue that such evidence of "legislative intent" is often created by proponents of a bill to persuade a court to interpret the statute in a way that they had failed to persuade the legislative body to adopt when they passed the bill. Those principles of legislative intent often overlap with those principles of statutory construction that courts have developed to interpret ambiguous or incomplete legislation. Foe example, the principle that courts should not interpret a statute to produce absurd or unintended results is often informed by evidence of what the proponents of a bill stated on the objectives to be achieved by the statute. See also Judicial activism Statutory interpretation Legislative history References Statutory law Intention