America's laws are effectively untrackable

Legal rules are fragmented across city, state, and federal sources, making the rules governing ordinary behavior much harder to navigate than they should be

this is one of those weird things that’s hard to believe: it is practically impossible to know the laws governing you right now. those laws are distributed across myriad municipal, state, federal, etc. sources, and not all are online. phil
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