Says Cooper, "there are three important elements of new textualism: its reliance on ordinary meaning (the premise), its emphasis on context (the process), and its rejection of normative biases (the reasoning)." From that vantage point, Watson wouldn't be so much a judge (much as we'd love to see a massive black judge's robe draped over Watson's storage array) as an assistant or clerk, using its power to decide, for example, what the most "ordinary" use of a word is. Humans have to rely on instinct and experience, but Watson can systematically measure that sort of thing, narrowing down the possible meanings of words to eliminate uncertainty.