Democrats target 150-year-old 'zombie law,' warning the GOP could use it to ban abortion

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3. The GOP is a bizarre group, which we knew already

There's a movement in the Republican Party to make ALL laws, regardless of how good they are, null and void after five years. If Congress believes a law is still good, they will be able to renegotiate it and get it back into the law books.

This would lead to bizarre things like having to renegotiate 18 USC 1652 (Whoever, being a citizen of the United States, commits any murder or robbery, or any act of hostility against the United States, or against any citizen thereof, on the high seas, under color of any commission from any foreign prince, or state, or on pretense of authority from any person, is a pirate, and shall be imprisoned for life.) when it's still a perfectly good law.

But when it comes to abortion they're more than happy to pull out 150 year old laws that weren't good when they were written.