Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by MichaelZuo 1086 days ago
Regardless of whatever the political currents are, it's sensible policy to strike down every pseudo law that doesn't have legislative backing of some kind.

If they only selectively struck them down in favor of one group or another, then that would be a different matter.

1 comments

The greater corpus of American law is based on case law, meaning it is based on court decisions. It is a common law system.

This is in juxtaposition to civil law systems that are based on codified legislation, for example in France or Germany.

Most case law is based on some kind of legislative output directly or indirectly via other case law. That's well known.
Yes I agree with you and in the context of this discussion it's unknown the parent's understanding of law and pseudo-law and I apologize if I came across the wrong way as a poser