It’s important to understand that when lawyers in court argue history instead of law, it usually means that the legal argument is actually not very strong. And if you don’t have a strong legal argument, and your argument is basically “well that’s how we’ve always done it”, you can’t really blame the judges for going with the other guy if they have a compelling argument. Or put in a simple sentence of five words, “Historical precedent is not legal precedent.”
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It’s important to understand that when lawyers in court argue history instead of…
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