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Jonathan King wrote:
> While I feel that the administration's legal counsel bears some
> responsibility, it's probably the case that lots of places could
> (and are) burned by somebody conjuring up 100-year-old laws that
> nobody has cared about in 50 years.
Just because a law wasn't brought up for a 100 years should not make it any
less valid. That's what the lawyers get paid the big bucks for, right --
remembering all the laws applicable to any particular case? Those laws can
serve as pretty good sanity checks, reflecting how the society has changed
over the years. If a law doesn't make sense anymore, who has the power to
repeal it - the legislators or the judiciary?
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MK
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