Oct 2, 2007, 01:11 pm
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Location: Buffalo, New York, USA Posts: 3,523 | Quote:
Quote by: Mr. Jaggers  The Patriot Act contains a “severability” clause:
Sec. 2. CONSTRUCTION ; SEVERABILITY.
Any provisions of this Act held to be invalid or unenforceable by it terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be construed so as to five it the maximum effect permitted by law, unless such holding shall be one of utter invalidity, in which event such provision shall be deemed severable from this Act and shall not affect the remainder thereof or the application of such provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other, dissimilar circumstances.
The Fourth Amendment ruling, however, strikes at the guts of the Act. | Does the clause really say, "so as to five it"? That makes no sense whatsoever.
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