Ensures judicial opposition
David W. Gartenstein and Joseph F. Warganz 90, Gartenstein is an attorney; Warganz is on the Associate General Counsel at KPMG LLP, 3/xx/1990, RICO'S "PATTERN" REQUIREMENT: VOID FOR VAGUENESS?, Columbia Law Review, 90 Colum. L. Rev. 489, pg. 505, HKeef
The vagueness doctrine is a judicial response to legislative abdication of responsibility for setting standard of conduct. When a legislature drafts vague statutory language, it cedes vast authority to the judiciary to determine what conduct has been prohibited, an authority the courts may be loath to assume. The vagueness doctrine demonstrates that "attempts of the legislative authority to pass to the courts … the awesome task of making … the criminal and the constitutional law understandably meet[ing] substantial judicial opposition.