Millions of people throw out old, useless items every spring. But the 535 members of Congress are not among those people.
The last 40 years have witnessed a prodigious growth in the number of federal criminal statutes, and our federal criminal code now contains more than 4,000 criminal laws. Some of them are as useless as the old English statute that bans the wearing of suits of armor in Parliament. Here are a few examples:
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Sunday, March 13, 2016
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