Rewriting Statutes Via Courts
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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Can C D C's Masking Really Work?
Judge Mazell says that wearing a mask cleans nothing. It neither sanitizes the person wearing the mask, nor does sanitize the conveyance. She feels very strongly that because she is consulting many dictionaries and doing the work of seeing what sanitation meant in 19 forty four when the statute was enacted. And it's just, at one level, it looks like sophistry. At another level, i guess this is how we do law now, right? We just read statutes in ways that, as long as the result we seek achieved, then you can go for pages and pages saying that essentially, you know, c d c has the authority to make businesses clean stuff up but they
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