Category: Legal

We’re the Only Ones Searching Enough

Can the Police Make Me Open My Car Safe [More]

As we see every damn day, police can “make” you do practically anything they want, and unless it’s a situation where their overt criminal aggression is immediately life-threatening to necessitate self-defensive force, my intent will be to not resist, comply with orders to get out, put my hands behind my back, get on the ground, etc., to say and consent to nothing (beyond “Am I free to go?” and “I want to speak to legal counsel”), and to let my lawyer guide my actions afterward.

[Via Jess]

$h!+ Hits the Fani

An appeals court in Georgia has tossed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis off of her own case, a series of wild organized crime claims against President Trump based largely on his own expressions of his dissatisfaction with the process and results of the 2020 presidential election [More]

I can’t wait to see her, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Liz Cheney, and more get what’s coming to them.

We’re the Only Ones Hazardous Enough

Dallas Campbell walked into the police department in Hazard, Kentucky a free man, doing his best to keep a notoriously untrustworthy police agency (at least that’s what I learned watching the “Dukes of Hazard”) honest. Unfortunately, he left in handcuffs, the victim of a false arrest. But he had a small YouTube channel, and 12 days after he posted the video of his arrest, the Hazard Police Chief was fired. [More]

My immediate thought is all the clerk and sheriff had to do is let him know they would expedite it to legal to make sure they were compliant with the law and someone from there would contact Campbell about an appoinmtment within the timeframe allowed by law to review and ensure they would provide everything he was entitled to. If that wasn’t good enough for him I’d have called the city attorney,and let him speak with the man.

Making up and enforcing a recording prohibition edict pretty much shows if the top cop doesn’t know what the law is, he has no business with a badge and power.

What this reminds me of more than anything was my attempts over the years (through to Mike DeWine) to get Ohio AGs to ensure that all LE agencies gave training on the legality of open carry and document each officer understood. Talk about pulling teeth.

[Via Matthew L]

De-Authorized Journalists

Everett mayor wins $1.1M in defamation settlement, local paper agrees to shut down – Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria alleged The Everett Leader Herald knowingly fabricated quotes and published false accusations against him. [More]

The guy’s a goddam gun-grabber and they gotta make stuff up about him? That’s gotta be a real Democrat dilemma, when you can’t go after him for what he’s really guilty of because you share that agenda.

[Via Edmund M]

Request to Expedite

The 2A Attorneys in Gray v. Jennings Delaware “assault weapon” ban litigation have filed a submission to SCOTUS as the three AR-15/Magazine ban cases continue their move through the Court’s consideration process. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner discusses. [Watch]

That’s a counterpoint to this.

January sounds like the month we’ll learn either way if this and related cases will be considered/consolidated or punted again.

[Via Jess]

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of ‘Shall Not Be’ Is

The petition for a writ of certiorari should be denied. [More]

The state that inflicted Joe Biden onto the political scene says banning semiautomatic rifles and magazines doesn’t infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

Mark W. Smith ties it in with related cases SCOTUS is considering. And I continue to be suspicious of relying on “common use.”

[Via Jess]

The Treason Coalition

While the lawsuit was only brought by New Jersey and Minnesota, the “larger coalition that will be working together includes 16 states in total,” the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office said to Newsweek. These states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, as well as Washington, D.C. [More]

As long as the Supreme Court lets them get away with infringements, it will only get worse.

Until the Justice Department steps up and defends all civil rights from state denials, the only “legal” defense will be what the gun groups can scrape up from the same overburdened donors. I’m afraid Pam Bondi has established a record of being more the type that defends employer infringements. My guess is Trump is more interested in what she can do to squash bugs like Bragg.

[Via Jess]

La Misérable

Why would Yoran go easy on a black felony murderer while throwing the book at a defendant she refers to as “the white man”? To ask the question is to answer it. Hopefully, she will soon face justice herself. [More]

At least Javert had self-awareness and decency to drown himsel in the Seine…

[Via bondmen]

And this just in:

Not guilty verdict in Daniel Penny trial [More]

[Via Michael G]

OK, Now Talk

Ask him if he had any interactions with the Secret Service about his gun.

[Via bondmen]

A Right Delayed

There comes a point where it’s simply unbelievable to say that judges actually think that way and aren’t perfectly aware of the tyranny they’re willing parts of.

[Via Jess]

Branch Managers

On Tuesday, the United States House of Representatives told the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) that siding with Mexico in its liability suit against American gun makers would violate the separation of powers. [More]

Kind of like ATF “rule” making?

[Via Jess]

An Uncommon Question

I. There is a long-running and intractable dispute in the lower courts over whether the Second Amendment allows the government to ban arms that are in common use by law-abiding citizens. II. Heller clearly teaches that arms in common use by law-abiding citizens cannot be banned. III. This case is an ideal vehicle to resolve this dispute. [More]

What’s to stop “common use” from allowing future developments to be banned?

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Reasonable Enough

“Any reasonable officer arriving at the scene would have simply confirmed Agent Burk’s credentials, then offered him assistance or cleared from the scene,” attorneys from the firm Cooper Elliot wrote. “Instead, the officers who did arrive immediately drew their weapons on Agent Burk, berated him, manhandled him, repeatedly tased him, cuffed him and locked him in the back of a police cruiser.” [More]

So she was trusted without a custodian and they stopped him from infringing on her RKBA?

Unless the “illegal” shotgun was stolen, what’s unreasonable about that?

[Via Andy M]

No One Spares Like Gascon

Progressive DA ousted for soft-on-crime policies spends last days in office helping ‘Bob’s Big Boy’ killer – Outgoing LA DA George Gascon’s office is pushing for reduced sentence after shooter, accomplice herded victims into freezer and shot them from behind [More]

Not that his successor will be much of an improvement…

The Other Side in a Nutshell

This is why it’s fruitless to “debate” with with obnoxious, self-entitled fanatics who are too stupid to realize how wrong they are, and who presume to teach but don’t even belong in the class without passing the prerequisites.

Has the loudmouthed clownette “proudly” ID’d herself on social media yet?

[Via Jess]

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