Andy Biggs: “I have other pending legislation. The End Endless Criminal…”

“Dr. Silverglate clearly wasn't referring to violent felonies like murder or felonies like money laundering, fraud, but instead to those vague, hidden, duplicative and sometimes downright silly laws. I have other pending legislation. The End Endless Criminal Statutes act to repeal 10 unnecessary criminal offenses such as selling or possessing colored oleomargarine or colored margarine, unless they're packaged and labeled or served in a triangular shape. And that's far from the only silly law still on the books. It's illegal to use a falconry bird in a movie that isn't about falconry, to sell runny ketchup, to leave the country with too many nickels in your pockets.” (02:18–02:35)

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