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Waiting For Everyman

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6. He's supporting the weakest of the proposals -- predicatably.

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Wed Aug 14, 2013, 11:56 AM

Aug 2013

As to "lawful", it's technically lawful until a court rules that it isn't, but I wouldn't bet a lot on that lasting for long. Suits filed are pending, so we'll see.

The author of the law has already stated categorically that it isn't lawful. He (Sensenbrenner) should know.

So the bottom line of it is that this statement by the admin, and this OP are based entirely on very flimsy hairsplitting.

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