>> You can hardly expect politicians to understand the ramifications of the legislation they're proposing. > That anyone would ever say this in a non-ironic se

>> You can hardly expect politicians to understand the ramifications of the legislation they're proposing. > That anyone would ever say this in a non-ironic sense is flabbergasting. Legislators write the laws and then courts figure out the ramifications. Laws get written because of some catalyst, but I wouldn't expect anybody to be able to understand the full ramifications until the law is in place for a while and people have started testing it in the legal system.