Legal Opinion
United States v. Saffle
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 22, 2015No. Criminal No. 2015-0048Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES v. Case No. 15-cr-00048 (CRC) DAVID BRONSTEIN, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION As James Madison observed long ago, “no language is so copious as to supply words and phrases for every complex idea, or so correct as not to include many equivocally denoting different ideas.” The Federalist No. 47, at 225 (James Madison) (C. Rossiter ed., 1963). Legislatures at all levels have powerfully confirmed Madison’s insight. Yet even if some imprecision must be tolerated in the vast web of statutes that govern our daily lives,…
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