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Don’t start digging around in the Federal Code then. A law that doesn’t have a unique exception is a unique exception.

• tathougies 7y ago
  And all of these ought to be declared illegal via the Constitution's prohibition on bills of attainder.
  • qtplatypus 7y ago
    How is that a bill of attainder? A bill of attainder is one that says “$Foo $Bar and $Baz of people will be punished/have properly removed”. And exemption from a regulation is “If you fulfill this criteria/make an application then different set of regulations take effect”.
    • tathougies 7y ago
      > A bill of attainder is one that says “$Foo $Bar and $Baz of people will be punished/have properly removed” Correct. However, I see no difference between this, and attempting to formulate a set of criteria that is obviously intended to make the law only apply to someone (or some entity) the legislature has already selected. I think we have lots of examples of laws in the current US code that clearly were written with criteria designed to uniquely punish certain individuals or businesses, and I don't see a substantive difference between this and a 'traditional' bill of attainder.