In a system like ours, both government and the judiciary go back and forth to set laws and legal precedent to ensure that society has reasonable governance. Sometimes the judiciary strikes down laws that have been poorly written (too common) or is prejudicial is some unfair way. Conversely, Politicians then make new laws to try to prevent society from society at large from changing in detrimental way.
The glaring rpoblem with all this is.... Laws. Too many of them... Even competent lawyers, and many competent judges cannot be expected to know all of the law. What irks me beyond measure is when a Judge has to research the law in order to make a decision on some poor schlub that did something, either in good or bad faith, which he couldn't possibly know if it was illegal or not.
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