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Originally Posted by publius42
Among the ideas we have accumulated are the "reasonable man" test, rulings about reasonable suspicion, etc. So the law can't be immune to reason and logic.
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I never said the law was immune from reason and logic. It was another court justice who pointed out that the law does not
require logic. It is, after all, a creation of the very political legislature.
If a state decided to pass a law that all taxicabs and
only taxicabs must be painted a certain shade of the color yellow and painted a different color when sold out of taxi service, they are free to do so. Because the law is
not logic, trying to fight the law in court because it makes no logical sense will not prevail.
Likewise, a legislature could, theoretically, pass a law that says all AR-15 rifles in their state be finished with either a fluorescent lime-green finish or a bright yellow finish.