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To: Deep_6
It was after-the-fact and reversed a court's opinion; it is not Constitutional and will be stricken.

There is a long history, going back over 200 years, of legislators deciding to effectively reverse court decisions by passing laws so as to undermine them. That a law undoes a court decision is hardly a basis for declaring it unconstitutional; indeed, the ability for the legislature and executive to join together to override the judiciary is one of the essential checks and balances in the republic.

116 posted on 11/04/2003 7:44:02 PM PST by supercat (Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
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To: supercat
There is a long history, going back over 200 years, of legislators deciding to effectively reverse court decisions by passing laws so as to undermine them. That a law undoes a court decision is hardly a basis for declaring it unconstitutional; indeed, the ability for the legislature and executive to join together to override the judiciary is one of the essential checks and balances in the republic.

Exactly.

125 posted on 11/04/2003 8:02:01 PM PST by malakhi (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.)
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