ON THE CONTRARY

 There is a man who ruminates on the Law for a living and that is what he does all day. More power to him because some would say it is good to know the law and to understand it well. I find satisfaction in knowing that there are people who make the study of Law their whole point in life. That said, I have my own understanding of the Law and it is not a trivial understanding since I used to wage war in the military law trenches both as the prosecutor and as the Judge and here is my take on Tillman's judgement of understanding the Law. "Oh Bullshit!"  You may quote me.

When the Law is murky it is no law at all and after over 200 years of tootling around with it there is no excuse for any of us to accept some lawyer's or judge's decision that, 'on this the law is murky.' If you cannot explain it satisfactorily in every situation you mean to apply it then you have no business trying to apply it at all.

If you don't like the laws the way they are written then why should anyone accept every black robed idiots interpretation of it? Obviously the Law is championed by a subruling class that makes their whole living and way of life out of making every aspect of the Law they can as murky as possible. That's not a justice system, that's full employment at any cost for judges and lawyers. It really isn't that hard to write sensible and understandable laws and if there are no such then there is no law and it cannot be applied unless it is done at the point of a gun.

I see all the lawyers admiring the cut and thrust of applying law to perfectly sane and understandable actions and none of them seem to let themselves get carried away by any enthusiasm for the other parts of the Constitution that lay out the powers reserved to the Executive and the Legislative. They also seem to cave in entirely when dealing with the Regulatory state.

It might be time to sweep all of that away. Perhaps Shakespeare had something when he mentioned the just fate of lawyers.