[Oatka]

All laws should have a sunset clause. Renew it every 10 or 15 years or it ceases to exist. That would make the politicians more responsible also - they would have to take a stance on whether or not to extend the law.

Amen. I've been preaching that all laws over 50 years old should be sunsetted in five years and then sunsetted as you suggest. The pols would be so busy defending some of the old ones they wouldn't have time to create new ones. That, and the fact that they couldn't interpret some old wacky law to allow them to convict someone they deemed unworthy.

That would play Hell with precedence, but then that would cause the judiciary to go back and crack the books - with the same result.

[ApplegateRanch]

The ‘Rats would just deem all current laws reaffirmed, and then head out of state.

The Pubbies would take a single up or down vote on the criminal code as written, and then head for the golf course.