It’s more common in the UK, where you have 1200 year old laws banning wearing of sandles on Thursdays, but it pops up in other Common Law countries, too, including the US.
I know shits complicated because of politics but it’s so much fucking simpler to just officially sunset these laws through the legislature. I don’t ever want murder to become temporarily legal because we’re all fine with how the law is defined.
There is an actual legal principle of laws simply going out of date, even if they don’t explicitly have a sunset date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desuetude
It’s more common in the UK, where you have 1200 year old laws banning wearing of sandles on Thursdays, but it pops up in other Common Law countries, too, including the US.
I know shits complicated because of politics but it’s so much fucking simpler to just officially sunset these laws through the legislature. I don’t ever want murder to become temporarily legal because we’re all fine with how the law is defined.