A statute's words do not tell how the law will be interpreted and applied.

All laws are expansively interpreted. For example:

— The Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was directed at drug lords. Nothing in the law says anything about divorce, yet it soon was applied in divorce cases.

— The 1964 Civil Rights Act explicitly bans racial quotas and defines racial discrimination as an intentional act. Yet, quotas were imposed by the civil rights ...

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