Yates v. United States (2015)

[Kingpoleon]

A tangible object is a tangible object. Perhaps the legislators did not intend such a meaning, but the Court has admitted, time after time, that they ought not read legislative intention into law.

[Kingpoleon]

The inclusion of the phrase “tangible objects” indicates not exclusively a destruction of records, but to also include a destruction of what said records record. If the legislators did not intend such a clear reading of such plain text, they ought to have made their intent clearer.