To me, this case points up problems with passing comprehensive 2000 page laws, which nobody has read. The liberal view is that this federal/state unclear wording in the law was simply a clerical error in the wording. Well, perhaps liberals should be more careful when they shove 2000 page bills down our throats. This is a lesson beyond this case, of why we should not do comprehensive big bills on complex subjects.
It shouldn’t matter whether it is a clerical error or not. It says what it says. The courts job shouldn’t be to figure out intent but just to observe what it says.
“To me, this case points up problems with passing comprehensive 2000 page laws, which nobody has read.”
It is clear that you are correct. But “progressives” love this sort of bill because it buts enormous power in the hands of administrators. They are controlled by the Exectutive branch, if at all. This concentrates ever more power in the state,and the ability to use it arbitrarily, to favor some over others, to punish those who are out of favor.
It is a reversion to the rule of man over the rule of law, by making the law so voluminous, that only an expert can hope to come close to understanding it.