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There is a body of people who do this: 535 of them. We elect them. Their job is to write laws that set up what can and cannot be done. Write to them.
by dmitrygr 5y ago
There is a body of people who do this: 535 of them. We elect them. Their job is to write laws that set up what can and cannot be done. Write to them.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> There is a body of people who do this: 535 of them. We elect them. Their job is to write laws that set up what can and cannot be done. The law (state law, the federal constititution, and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act) already exists, the question is resolving a dispute about what the laws that exist, taken together, allows. If the solution to every dispute about the law is to defer to more lawmaking, then there is no enforceable law.
- verdverm 5y agoThey can write laws which are still overturned by SCOTUS on the grounds they violate the construction. An amendment is a much bigger thing to get through the process