News Flash: Normal People Just Got Relief
From the Tom Woods Letter:
We actually had some very good news at the federal level the other day, but it’s been almost completely buried.
You may be familiar with a book called Three Felonies a Day, by Harvey Silverglate. The author’s point: federal criminal law, extending into the Code of Federal Regulations, has become so extensive, abstruse, and serpentine that we essentially violate some aspect of it on a regular basis without even knowing it.
This, in turn, affords the feds broad scope to harass ordinary people, since we’re all guilty of something.
It’s the classic case of anarcho-tyranny: actual criminals are treated with kid gloves, but normal people have the book thrown at them.
Well, an executive order was just issued called “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations.”
(For anyone fearful of the very words “executive order,” I remind you that an order directing federal agencies to do certain things is within the president’s constitutional authority.)
Here’s how Alexandria Brown described it on X:
What does this do? The most important part is that every agency has 365 days to list out all the regulations that have a criminal penalty and then that report has to be made public. Right now, there is literally no one on this planet that knows this information. No one.
That report must be made public and must be updated annually.
All future regulations have to
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