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Quite often they know the law they're passing isn't constitutional but it's good campaign optics so they do it anyway. When it is overturned by the courts, vote
by Mountain_Skies 3y ago
Quite often they know the law they're passing isn't constitutional but it's good campaign optics so they do it anyway. When it is overturned by the courts, voters generally get angry with the court for overturning the law rather than with their congress critter for passing it.
- qingcharles 3y agoThis is the same scam a lot of trial court judges run. They will find a defendant guilty at bench trial with no evidence, or massively over-sentence them, then when the appellate court reverses it they can just jump up and down and blame out-of-touch appeals court judges.