There's a real practical question about whether the courts would opine on legislative intent.
For the sake of illustration, pretend my State has a unicameral legislature with 100 members. I write a bill and I explicitly say "I'm writing this bill to screw Mike's company because I don't like the mean things he said about me." The bill passes 65-35. Five other legislators join me in stating that their support of the bill was because they wanted to screw Mike. 40 legislators say the support the bill for entirely legitimate and neutral reasons. 20 legislators voted for the bill but did not publicly express any opinion about why.
The court is unlikely to strike that down merely based on the retaliatory motivation of the bill's author and the handful of legislators who voted for it for retaliatory reasons. You can't assign the motivations of individual legislators to the entire body.
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