Nonsense on stilts

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The JC puts on his pith-helmet, grabs his butterfly net and a rucksack full of marmalade sandwiches, and heads into the concrete jungleIndex: Click to expand:

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Nonsense on stilts
/ˈnɒnsəns ɒn stɪlts/ (n.)

“A bright line test is simple nonsense: rehypothecation of pledged securities, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts.” — Jeremy Bentham

In these pages we refer to the creative contortions of U.S. Attorneys to achieve elliptically things the common law is perfectly able to achieve directly, in terms first used by Jeremy Bentham.