“Aren’t we lucky that those lawyer guys go to school for so many years, so that they all know so clearly what the law means?”
No luck about it.
Consider how many lawyers are demonkkkrap members of Congress. Do they not know the law and can call off the snarling non-lawyer demonkkkrap members? Little secret.
They were taught in law school how to look at words and come up with unique and novel arguments, no matter how bad the case, no matter how illogical, to “stretch” the law into areas not contemplated by statutory intent or constitutional meaning. That’s why the left support the “living-breathing Constitution” approach, change the meaning of words, etc. Ends justifies the means. They only take a strict constructionist position when it blocks their political opposition from undermining the left. Judges and justices learned the same.
I know all that. It just cracks me up how often I hear that someone shouldn’t comment because he or she is not a lawyer - as if being one means the opinion presented is sacrosanct.
“They were taught in law school how to look at words and come up with unique and novel arguments”
That is a bug/feature of the relatively new English language. Older languages have fewer words and expressions with ambiguous interpretations.