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The lowest level of the US court system tries hard to stick to what law and precedent say, and to avoid engaging with constitutional issues. If you want to drive change you have to appeal it up a level or two, where the senior judges consider it to be within their pay scale. That is what is going to happen here.



And in the interim you can be fined or imprisoned for violating a law which you cannot read without paying a private entity.

Either side can appeal a case, and judges should be ruling based on all laws, including the state and federal constitutions. Anything less should be grounds for impeachment (as should consistently having your rulings overturned by higher courts).




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