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To: aQ_code_initiate

Every legal expert has agreed on that at least,it was not a bill of Attainder.


143 posted on 03/31/2005 4:31:46 PM PST by northernlightsII
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To: northernlightsII

I never said it was, although I suspect that if bills of attainder were not prohibited, there would have been one in this case. I included Madison's comments on legislative interferences in judicial affairs because the Congress's intent was to use legislation to affect the outcome of a specific court decision. That's a bad law, per the wise words of one of the most pre-eminent of the Founding Fathers.


154 posted on 03/31/2005 4:38:19 PM PST by aQ_code_initiate
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