Furthermore, the petitioner’s understanding of senatorial responsibilities is fundamentally at odds with the way the Senate has operated for several years. In fact, a high number of bills which have been passed by the Senate lack a firm legal basis according to the narrow reading of the constitution the petitioner employs. Indeed, there seems to have been an implicit consensus among Senators of all stripes that the Senate’s ability to pass laws for the entirety of the Republic of Atlasia are based on a loose (or, as the petitioner puts it, “wild”) interpretation of Article I, V. Were the “Late-Term Abortion Restriction Act” to be ruled invalid for the reasons given by Foucaulf, a few dozen if not more other bills ought to be repealed as well, which would result in a paradigm shift in Atlasian politics of unprecedented proportions.
Mr. Attorney General, would you be willing to cite a few examples of other laws that you believe would also need to be struck down if the Court were to adopt the Plaintiff's narrower view of the powers granted to the Senate in Article I rather than the wider view your argument espouses?
