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Ol Janx Spirit

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8. I know we all feel like the concept of "the spirit of the law" still holds sway, but that has been eroded
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 08:46 PM
Mar 2025

by both liberal and conservative courts until it effectively doesn't exist anymore. Yes, what MuskRat did absolutely violates the spirit of the law, but apparently not the letter of the law according to Wisconsin courts. You can bet these days that anything a judge decides on their own will be some letter-by-letter parsing of the text of the law that leans in the direction they want to lean--while juries are a bit of a different story. And let's face it: FElon has the resources to know how to craft these efforts to skirt the law along a knife's edge. He didn't pay anyone directly for a vote. Paying people to sign petitions and be "spokespeople" for said petitions is certainly a clever way to skirt the law, but one can see how courts--and even juries--may decide it doesn't violate the actual law. The laws certainly need to be updated to address this kind of manipulation, but that really isn't Xitler's fault. If this was an effort by a Democratic-leaning billionaire I wonder if we would be nearly so critical of it?

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