[Cboldt]

-- Nevertheless, the plain language of the law is irrelevant --

This is the fundamental axiom of law.

[JamesP81]

“This is the fundamental axiom of law.”

If so, it’s yet another reason lawyers are a scourge on civilization. If words don’t mean things, then laws, which are made of words, don’t mean things either.

That’s not a place anyone should want to go.