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Illinois

ChairmanAgnostic

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1. Not an accurate description.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Aug 22, 2016, 05:59 AM

Aug 2016

I read the decision. It was well reasoned given the historical facts and the law that existed At that time.

To have ruled otherwise would have destroyed the whole idea of interpreting statutory law, destroying precedent, and turning our legal system into a potluck dinner. The chaos would have been severe and destructive.

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