Your interpretation of laws determines your guilt

This is a very interesting decision and one that, I would think, would be used as precedent for many areas of society.

John Cheek cheekily did not pay his taxes for years and the US Supreme Court affirmed his views based on the principle that even if one wilfully commits a crime, they cannot be charged with that crime if they are ignorant of the full-scope of the laws. And more importantly, it doesn't matter how irrational that ignorance is.

In other words, if you truly believe that you are not violating the existing laws then you are not wilful and therefore not guilty of a crime.

This defence cannot be used to protest against existing laws, but it can be used (in the US) as a defence if you feel the existing laws have some other interpretation other than the one you are being accused of. Because then you are not wilfully breaking the law.

I think it's a fascinating test of the laws of the land. And it's one that could be used in a variety of defences where people are unaware of the full scope of the law and therefore are ignorant of what exact laws they are breaking. And the beauty of it is that the rationality of your argument has nothing to do with it.

It's the way that justice should work. Good decision in my book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheek_v._United_States

Society is a fragile cooperation

 Well, 17 Republican US States have launched a Supreme Court lawsuit against the 4 swing States which elected Biden. They are claiming voter/election fraud yet Trump has lost all 50 lawsuits claiming this. All States have certified their results via recounts/etc. They are trying to invalidate 81 million votes because the Texas Attorney General wants a federal pardon from Trump over financial crimes he has committed. It is that self-serving and wicked.

The US has become a 24/7 Saturday Night Live skit. It's a joke. A banana republic. A nation where the 2 political sides are so polarised that compromise is impossible.

The problem is that this behaviour legitimises assaults on democracy in other countries. If the world's 800lb gorilla can act like this then we can as well. Because other nations are realising how truly powerless society is when someone comes in and attempts to break the fragile ties that bring society together to make it function. Much of how society functions is unwritten in laws; it is a loose agreement between people to cooperate. And it only takes someone as narcissistic as Trump to throw this fragile cooperation into chaos.