It takes real effort to hurt children, adults, and senior citizens all in less than a month, but it’s just another day’s work for the radical Republicans clogging up the country’s state legislatures. From protecting child predators to keeping you working until you’re nearly 70, the GOP is obsessed with manipulating legal age requirements to reshape public policy.

In some cases, that means rewriting the laws to help your relatives, like Utah Sen. Stuart Adams did when he initiated a change to the state’s age-of-consent laws after his 18-year-old relative was charged with raping a 13-year-old girl. Though the changed law didn’t retroactively apply to the case, the judge, the case’s prosecutor, and the defense attorney each acknowledged that it led to a more lenient resolution for the 18-yea

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