lizzie
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These "minor restrictions" (which I don't believe are minor at all) are the first steps down a road that it will be almost impossible to backtrack from. Once you allow this sort of thing to start with "reasonable" restrictions (as we did in 1934), it only gets worse. It never gets better.
Exactly. Action to repeal a law, which is unconstitutional in nature, rarely gets done in Congress, and typically requires SCOTUS action. Power and authority are tightly gripped by those in possession of it, and the impulse to gain more power and authority always exists, as it's the very nature of government. To expect congress to retract a former legislative decision, is to expect them to admit they were wrong, and that isn't likely to happen.