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		onlyrealcuzzo 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme C... Statutory Law is 50,000 pages, and that's just the beginning of everything you need to consider. Make stupid laws, win stupid prizes. It's almost like the legal system is designed so that you can get away with murder if you can afford enough lawyers.

fwip 68 days ago [–]

Of which, only a small fraction will be relevant in any particular case.

It's kind of like pointing at any major codebase and arguing that it's "stupid" to have millions of lines of code.

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