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> Which means congress could pass a law preventing themselves from passing certain laws.
So what happens in court when legislation didn't notice and passed the law regardless? Can a codified law that may even have already been used in previous cases be rendered null because another law says it shouldn't exist?
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Congress cannot pass a law that binds future Congresses, the supreme court decided in Winstar (https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-865.ZO.html)
A later congress can always legislate whatever it wants, even if it contradicts previous legislation.
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Congress needs exemptions to not be affected by the laws they pass e.g. OSHA specifically exempts the US (and thus congress). Which means congress could pass a law preventing themselves from passing certain laws.
Though of course they could always repeal it first, I wouldn't think "unrepealable" laws would be constitutional.