Indeed, and I think this is something that judges do more often than not. But it also goes to show how ridiculous the whole "original intent" argument is, because that is still a matter of interpretation.
I'm a casual Court watcher, so everything I read I read with a layman's eye. It is always striking to me how many cases are decided 9-0. Those are clearly not the cases that typically garner the headlines, but it's nice to know that our judiciary can come to broadly similar conclusions given a set of laws and facts. That would seem to be the way you would most often want it in a rules based system where the law is applied dispassionately. Of course, culture war type stuff is rarely if ever dispassionate for anyone, even lawyers who believe themselves to be so.