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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:44:43 -0400
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On 6/28/2024 1:47 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2024 at 9:33:45 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/28/2024 12:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>   In article <v5mjv0$3cvu7$3@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
>>>   wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   On 6/22/24 11:52 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>   FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>   On 6/22/24 11:30 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>   FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>>>>>>   They decide law based on intent all the time. It's a staple of the
>>>>>>>>   system.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Cool! Let's go with intent, then. Which means all those millions of
>>>>>>>   illegals pretending to be refugees and just reciting the magic words to
>>>>>>>   game the system can be summarily denied and deported because the intent
>>>>>>>   of the refugee law was never to allow millions of people who don't
>>>>>>>   qualify as refugees to game and overwhelm the system and flood
>>>>>>>   unchecked into the country.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Regardless of what the law actually says, its intent was never to
>>>>>>>   create the current border crisis we're currently experiencing, so we
>>>>>>>   can ignore what's written and just go with intent.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   I'm really starting to warm up to The Law According to Effa!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   What do you think the Supreme Court uses to judge whether a law is
>>>>>>>>   constitutional?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Umm... the Constitution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Ummm... pass the border bill your side wrote.
>>>>>
>>>>>   No need. We already have the intent of the Immigration and Naturalization
>>>>>   Act!
>>>>>
>>>>   Then why hasn't anyone said that, besides you?
>>>   
>>>   Because deciding cases based on intent isn't really a thing. Something I
>>>   was trying to illustrate with sarcasm.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law
>>
>> Gosh, it *seems* to really be a thing...
> 
> Gosh, then we're back to not needing to care about what the text of the
> Immigration and Naturalization Act says, since it was unquestionably NOT the
> intent of those who wrote it to erase the southern border allow the entire
> Southern Hemisphere to flood into the country.

But, back on the subject, it appears that intent *can* inform decisions.