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Jared Kushner just flagrantly violating the Logan Act multiple times. Will anything come of it? Doubtful.
minus-square@FlowVoidlinkEnglish0•edit-23 months ago“Interfering with the elected will” is not a crime. If it were, all protests would be illegal.
minus-square@FlowVoidlinkEnglish-1•edit-23 months agoThat’s like saying “homosexuality is a crime in Texas, because a law against it exists”. If nobody will enforce a law that’s obviously unconstitutional, then that law de facto does not exist.
minus-square@FlowVoidlinkEnglish0•3 months agoNo, but that would explain why literally no prosecutor has enforced this law in over 150 years.
“Interfering with the elected will” is not a crime.
If it were, all protests would be illegal.
Obviously it is. Otherwise the Logan act wouldn’t exist.
That’s like saying “homosexuality is a crime in Texas, because a law against it exists”.
If nobody will enforce a law that’s obviously unconstitutional, then that law de facto does not exist.
It’s not unconstitutional just because you like it though.
No, but that would explain why literally no prosecutor has enforced this law in over 150 years.