Politically Inclined Law and Chicago Gambling

It is often in the consideration of criminal justice and the transgressions encompassed therein that we take the letter of the law for granted. The law, after all, is designed to be executed in this way. Legality or illegality are principles intended to exist with no gray area, with any possible capitulation in reasoning to be preempted by a set of unavoidable and certain determinations. But historical evidence is damning to this philosophy, as a perpetually shifting wave of prevailing cultural, social and moral norms is eternally demanding reconsideration of the law and its relevancy. As public advocacy, political power, financial priority and any number of intangible factors change the way we perceive some of our laws, so too must the legal system change to reflect these impulses. Even today, for instance, forty years distance from passage of the Civil Rights Act, the Supreme Court is still wrangling over revision in the vogue of affirmative action. And a statistically signific...