shyams, on 2020-November-10, 12:50, said:
What you attribute to stupidity may well have been motivated by malice. The idea might have been to create a flaw in an otherwise legal law with the intent that the flaw can one day be exploited to render the entire law text untenable --- something like a poison pill amendment which, on the face of it, did not appear to be damaging.
Maybe. But then it would be pretty stupid to fall for that trick.
Recent phone conversation:
"Hello Grandpa, this is you oldest grandson."
"Hi, David, how are you?"
"Just fine"
"I don't have a grandson named David."
End of phone conversation
It's a little frightening to think we have people in Congress who fall for obvious scams.
Otherwise put: In order for this to come to pass, someone had to put it forth, apparently nobody, when hearing it, asked if they had inadvertently stumbled onto Saturday Night Live, and then people had to vote it into law.