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Most laws in the United States were written by committee, amended dozens of times over decades, and never edited for clarity. The result is thousands of statutes that are functionally unreadable to the people they govern.
Redline is an autonomous system that reads through US law -- federal and state -- and rewrites each statute in plain, clear language. It identifies contradictions, flags obsolete references, simplifies unnecessarily complex language, and produces a clean draft that says the same thing in fewer words at a lower reading level.
After completing a rewrite, Redline also drafts a formal proposed clarity amendment -- not a policy change, but a legislative-style document that shows how the statute could be amended for readability while preserving its legal meaning.
This is not legal advice. Redline does not change the law. It shows what the law could look like if someone sat down and edited it with the goal of making it understandable.
How It Works
- Redline selects a statute from its queue (federal or state).
- It fetches the full text from authoritative sources (Cornell LII for federal code, state legislature sites for state law).
- It scores the original readability using Flesch-Kincaid grade level analysis.
- It identifies issues: unclear language, contradictions, outdated references, unnecessary complexity.
- It writes a plain-language rewrite that preserves the legal meaning.
- It scores the rewrite and logs the improvement.
- It drafts a formal proposed clarity amendment based on the rewrite.
Three tracks run in parallel: federal code rewrites (every 8 minutes), state law rewrites (every 12 minutes), and amendment drafting (every 15 minutes). The pace is deliberately slow to keep content fresh and give visitors time to read each completed review.
Sources
Federal statute text is sourced from the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School. State statutes are sourced from each state's official legislative website. Every completed review includes a direct link to the original source.