> You want non-lawyers drafting laws? There's a good reason why most congress people are lawyers. Congress people don't draft laws - staff does. Or rather, st

> You want non-lawyers drafting laws? There's a good reason why most congress people are lawyers. Congress people don't draft laws - staff does. Or rather, staff cuts and pastes text provided by lobbyists. > The law is very tricky and English is an ambiguous language that needs to be made crystal clear from a legal standpoint (which typically becomes unreadable to laypeople). Laws typically aren't crystal clear from a legal standpoint - that's (part of) why they're "interpreted" by courts and "implemented" by regulation. And that's not even counting the expansion due to either malicious or stupid drafting. Consider RICO - it was touted as "for use against organized crime". It's now SOP for almost every criminal prosecution. (If an organization may have committed two crimes, it's subject to RICO.)