*sigh*

 

I get where they're going with this, and the logic isn't completely flawed or completely PC-based. That said, I doubt that anyone threatening the husband of a female President would get off on a technicality because of the way the law's written. If this Supreme Court has shown us anything lately, it's that it's more than happy to set precedents based upon the interpretation of a law rather than the text.

 

And even beyond that, don't we have better things to do than pay a private research firm millions of dollars to scour federal laws in search of the words "husband" and "wife", then re-write them and send them all back to Congress to be voted on?

 

Lois Capps' name on the bill doesn't surprise me. She's not the farthest left member of Congress by any stretch of the imagination, but she is the typical California liberal. I'd be curious to see who the other 23 names on the bill are, though.

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