What is the law?
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Giving up
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Date: February 28, 2016 07:14AM
I used to think that anyone could read a law and known what was forbidden or required. Apparently I was sadly mistaken:
1) Last year the Supreme Court decided that a law didn't mean what it plainly said, implying that no law may means what it plainly says.
2) The legal view of the Constitution as a "living document", once you strip away all of the legal mumbo jumbo, means that if a judge doesn't like what the Constitution says, he decrees that it says something different.
I'd like to be a law abiding citizen, but if law is not decided until the courtroom, I have no idea what I should do to obey. To make matters worse, I may obey what a judge said the law is yesterday, and be decreed a lawbreaker by a different judge today.
Our system is broken.