“Then what did they say — the people who had told you it was a crazy scheme?”
“Oh, they got committees from the bar association together and started amending the laws to try and plug up the loophole.”
“Did they do it?”
“In a way — as well as they could by state laws. This loophole is in the Constitution. You can’t plug that simply by state laws.”
“Can’t you tell whether it’s plugged or not?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because you can’t tell what the Supreme Court’s going to do.”
“Don’t they follow regular rules?”
I said, “They used to be bound by precedents. On those matters, W€ knew what the law was. Now they’re changing those old decisions. That throws the whole list out, because you can’t tell which ones they’ll change and which ones they’ll let stand.”