A Black Envelope addressed to Matt at Anhalt
Mr. Cavanaugh,
Acts (like Laws or Constitutional Amendments) are documents of words and are created by men. While in most cases this would mean that comprehension and action dictated by said declaration would be easily determined, in this case it indicates two distinct, unfortunate properties:
1) Just as the lines of a script may be read in different ways to indicate different points, so do the script of any legislation. The problem, as you may have guessed, is interpretation by the reader.
2) It was created by men. Another straight-forward and unfortunately misguiding property. For all that words may express one particular point, such are judges and politicians that they concern themselves not with the letter of the law, but with the spirit of the law.
Deciphering what may come is then a matter of looking at the will of politicians, the Act itself, other existing laws, and the Constitution and seeing where they all line up on certain points. An example:
The Wild Card Act declares that those afflicted with remnants of The Takisian Virus cannot be considered a 'race' and are thereby exempted from protection by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Employment Discrimination Act of 2012. The US Constitution guarantees under the 14th Amendment that no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. There are arguments on either side about whether the Wild Card Act directly impinges on the 14th Amendment's protections against equal protection under the law, or if by providing more definition to existing laws, merely clarifies an already applied statute.
I can't predict who will prevail -- it certainly won't be cooler heads.
Unless you're hiding some secret ability to accurately see the future, potential ramifications of living publicly as an Ace will have to be made based upon conjecture fueled by knowledge of the arguments being made in Congress and in the States, and the limitations of the Constitution that this country is based upon.
There are some that want blood. Some that want justice. Both will manipulate the words of that Act and the words of the thousands upon thousands of laws that have come before it. If you can read the text of the Act and see how someone who hates all Wild Cards would use it to the maximum effect to satisfy their desire, you have all the information you need.