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ProfessorGAC

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4. Can Any Law Enacted Be Retroactive?

Reply to The Magistrate (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 4, 2020, 03:02 PM

Apr 2020

Once gone, applying the law to "it", would by definition, be retroactive.
When prohibition went into effect, brewers weren't prosecuted. The law didn't apply to manufacturers who did it before it was a law!

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Does Congress have the power to remove a former President's [View all] Progressive Jones Apr 2020 OP

Nope. They could write some new legislation, of course. The benies are legislatively created. Shrike47 Apr 2020 #1

One Suspects, Sir That Would Constitute A Bill Of Attainder The Magistrate Apr 2020 #2

Can Any Law Enacted Be Retroactive? ProfessorGAC Apr 2020 #4

That, Sir, Would Be An 'Ex Post Facto' Law, Also Barred The Magistrate Apr 2020 #8

I could see it passing muster if there was a disqualification based on criminal behavior LiberalFighter Apr 2020 #5

Agreed Lithos Apr 2020 #7

A Pleasure To See You On The Board, My Friend The Magistrate Apr 2020 #9

If I may be a bit vulgar Lithos Apr 2020 #10

Plungers, Sir, Power Snakes The Magistrate Apr 2020 #11

Evolution Lithos Apr 2020 #12

An Interesting Way To Look At It, Sir The Magistrate Apr 2020 #13

I'd love to see impotus' security detail standing duty outside his prison cell MLAA Apr 2020 #3

I would think that a succesful civil suit Thunderbeast Apr 2020 #6