California Court Rules Bees Are Fish
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@raphjd said in California Court Rules Bees Are Fish:
Instead of fixing the dumb-ass law, the court makes the law even dumber.
"Judges should interpret the law, not make it." Isn't that what the Right is always saying? The rules of statutory interpretation say that specifically defined words within statutes should be interpreted according to the definitions of those words written by the legislature. Here, the Legislature defined the word "Fish" as "invertebrates." It didn't define them as "marine invertebrates," or "invertebrates that live in the water," or "those things served raw at sushi bars."
It simply defined them as "invertebrates." Guess what, insects are also invertebrates. This is the Legislature's failure, not the court's.
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sometimes it´s just imposible to not believe that americans are idiots... lol
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@raphjd
Which legislature, and when should they have fixed it? The one in 1970 controlled by Republicans with a Republican governor, who wrote the legislation with a loophole large enough to fly a 747 full of beehives through -- or the one in 1984 controlled by Democrats with another Republican governor, who repealed the 1970 legislation but left the wording with the invertebrate loophole exactly the same?
The speed of light from Earth to the Moon in real time (c = 3×10^8 m/s) -
Clearly, you needed to make this political.
It should have been properly made in the first place and/or fixed when they realized there was a problem.
