"Ignorance of the law is no excuse," said Thomas Jefferson.
Written must be laws for all people to understand.
It was not until 2010 that Congress passed the "Plain Language Act," requiring all federal agencies to use language that people can understand. What about all the laws and regulations on the books; must they also be examined for understandability?
How can the government require compliance with incomprehensible laws without lawyers arguing their meaning?
"A stake was driven through the heart of American democracy on January 6, 2021, and our democracy today is on a knife's edge.
America was at war on that fateful day, but not against a foreign power. She was at war against herself. We Americans were at war with each other -- over our democracy.
January 6 was but the next foreseeable battle in a war that had been raging in America for years, though that day was the most consequential battle of that war even to date. In fact, January 6 was a separate war unto itself, a war for America's democracy, a war irresponsibly instigated and prosecuted by the former president, his political party allies, and his supporters. Both wars are raging to this day." Judge J. Michael Luttig
Those words, one can understand.
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