the two charges, two misdemeanors out of the equation, the fact that he was 17 years old, breaking curfew, the fact that he was underage and had a rifle, the judge used some obscure drafting error in the law to justify not putting that in front of the jury, suddenly kyle rittenhouse s declaration that he did nothing wrong gave that some wings. you see all the second amendment right advocates essentially asserting he had a right to be there. so we have this really weird outcome where someone we all say shouldn t have been there is somehow sort of boot strapped into being legitimately on the scene, and of course, able to
only now, at least one state lawmaker is saying that was actually just a mistake, a drafting error, or a typo. call it an error, whatever you want to. but i talked to our team, yesterday. kind of regrouping of what happened. that was not intended to be reduced. i think there was a, you know, call it a mistake, if you want to. what should have been 11 was actually printed up as one. perspective now on voting rights in the state. and elsewhere. from former texas congressman and potential gubernatorial candidate, beto o rourke. congressman, first of all, i have to ask you about this alleged typo that i just mentioned. which would have limited black churches, souls to the polls events. i mean, do you buy this line? i don t. the excuses that, you know, they wrote in the legislation that voting could not begin till 1:00 p.m. and they said that was a typo. they really meant 11:00. that might almost be believable, if there wasn t the p.m. that followed the 1 in the legislation.
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that was all unprecedented, untried maneuvers before. that s exactly where you are likely to get, in fact, at 2:00 in the morning, drafting errors like this, important ones because this was an important drafting error, slipping in there. that s certainly true, larry. i would point out that this particular tax credit provision and its structure were not part of the reconciliation provision that was the second bill passed that accommodated some of the house concerns. not to get too tied up, the problem with doing it through the reconciliation is once you were passing that one, that bill couldn t reach over and change anything that was in the other part. so you had these two different bills. they couldn t really talk to each other legislatively as they were moving through. we could go on and on about it for hours. if i could linda, the point that we have always seen in these situations before is the congress
on campaign finance. you could say they did it again on the voting rights act. but this time as linda said this was such a flimsy case that if the court really would have brought unbelievable discredit on itself and i think threatened its own legitimacy if it had tossed obamacare on this reading of those few words. russ sullivan first of all, congratulations. you must be breathing easy tonight. you are overseeing the staff on the senate finance committee drafting this language legislative counsel drafting the language another committee involved in the senate a lot of the language got merged over in harry reid s office and somewhere in that hallway between the finance committee and harry rooet s office, this error occurred. it seems plainly anyone who s been around legislation can recognize it as a drafting oversight, a drafting error. and the supreme court figured