The Ledbetter Veto
Via Elyzabethe. Even the Supreme Court analysis of the case is very much disingenuous. The so-called “typo” analysis is just an excuse to rule on behalf of the corporate defendant.
The truth is that the legislative intent was so obvious that every other level of court read the statute properly and along the lines of what congress explicitly intended in their committee report.
It’s the type of technicality that so-called “Rule of Law” Republicans and Federalists rail against whenever it works against their interests.
The whole idea that Congress needs to pass a new law (and that Bush is threatening to veto it) just to correct what was obviously the intent of the law in the first place is absurd. And it only seeks to accomplish what is in fact a major goal of the Bush brand of Republicans and his merry band of jurists: frustrating the electorate.
If you get screwed over enough by the government, then maybe you agree with them that the government is just out to screw you over.
