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Occam Bandage

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Fri May-01-09 07:49 PM
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27. Completely unrelated.

Edited on Fri May-01-09 07:50 PM by Occam Bandage

There is a wide gulf between "knows whether a law is good policy" and "can see the wide-ranging legal and Constitutional ramifications of a law when seen in context of the history of similar laws and court decisions related to those over the past two hundred years."

And leaving that aside, it's true that a lot of Congressmen thought the Patriot Act was good policy. But nobody's supporting any of them for SCOTUS, so what's the point?

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