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by boie0025 4067 days ago
Yes, I half expect to see something like:

  //Not sure what this line of code does, but if you 
  //delete it, you'll break the whole application 
in a bill one day.
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Nice analogy. Legislature writes the source code of the law and the judiciary tries their damnedest to compile it into an executable program, rejecting the parts that they can't make sense of.
Oh dear, no.

Legislature is the business people. The executive is the developers. The judiciary is the test team. That's how it's designed in the Constitution. The "original intent" of the judiciary was to be the guys waving their hands frantically saying, "Uh, this is a bug," while being completely ignored because there's a ship date to meet.