Comment by dragonwriter

> “Reasonable” does a lot of work throughout the entire legal system.

Yes, but here it’s not being invoked in the sense of “would a reasonable person believe based on this evidence that the facts which would violate the actual law exist” but “would a ‘reasonable’ person believe the law is what the law, indisputably, actually is”.

It’s being invoked to question the reality of the law itself, based on its subjective undesirability to the speaker.