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by noonespecial 5325 days ago
Too true. Once two perfectly sound legal arguments are made without breaking any semantic rules of the legal system, but point to opposite conclusions, the law becomes a political process. Good lawyers complete the first phase and hope, truly excellent ones are adept politicos as well.

It takes years of legal training to stop thinking about the reality of the situation or what laymen would say "actually happened".