Tornado Cash (anon payment system) trial is definitely marching well into dystopian territory
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"Precedent" is legal assfuckery that has no basis in a sane system of law. - it is a tool used to justify the state's preferred interpretation of deliberately vague law. Prosecutors trying to make arguments that blatantly violate rights should be considered for disbarment and "precedent" should never be held to be law.
The idea of precedent isn't wrong but we need to eliminate decades of precedent. We have to go back.
The idea of precedent makes perfect sense. Predictable outcomes for the same fact patterns and consistent interpretations from judge to judge. The problem arises when you get naked partisans that get first crack at something that rule on what they want the law to be, not what it is.
A lot of things make perfect sense in a vacuum / simulation where everyone is assumed to be a rational actor, then fall apart when human corruption is introduced.
The law should be plain enough that no "precedent" interpretation is required, as the founding fathers intended.