{"id":3278,"date":"2012-12-21T10:37:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/21\/statesmen-v-politicians\/"},"modified":"2012-12-21T10:37:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:37:57","slug":"statesmen-v-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/statesmen-v-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"statesmen v politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You might be tempted to say, &#8220;If the language were plain and unambiguous, we wouldn&#8217;t be arguing about it, would we?&#8221;\u00a0 Banish the thought: Lawyers argue about plain and unambiguous language all the time.\u00a0 That is their job: to inject doubt when it is in their clients&#8217; interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner, <em>Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts<\/em>, (2012).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/misc\/R41647.pdf\">Law degrees<\/a> are held by 167 Members of the House (38% of the total House) and 55 Senators (55% of the total Senate).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You might be tempted to say, &#8220;If the language were plain and unambiguous, we wouldn&#8217;t be arguing about it, would we?&#8221;\u00a0 Banish the thought: Lawyers argue about plain and unambiguous language all the time.\u00a0 That is their job: to inject doubt when it is in their clients&#8217; interest.&#8221; Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner, Reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-subversion","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}