SCOTUS: ENFORCEMENT OR IRRELEVANCE
Pigpen51 left a comment on an earlier column regarding the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals complicity in California’s brazen violations of the Constitution. He thinks the Supreme Court needs to make some rulings with absolutely no wiggle room to allow California — and like-minded oathbreakers — to continue enforcing bad laws.
Month: October 2023
Diversity
Stolen from Peter Grant. Too perfect to pass up.
Charges For Jamaal?
Don’t hold your breath.
Jamaal Bowman [Dumbfuck-NY] attempted to delay a House vote yesterday by seeting off a firearm alarm. Sane people are getting pretty vocal about charging him. Dimocrats seem to be pretty quiet on the subject of Bowman.
Jamaal himself, however, doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut.
Today, as I was rushing to make a vote, I came to a door that is usually open for votes but today would not open. I am embarrassed to admit that I activated the fire alarm, mistakenly thinking it would open the door.
There are some problems with that claim.
Most obviously, one does not open doors by tripping fire alarms; a school principal who oversaw fire drills for ten years ought to know that. Next, the doors are marked for emergency use only (at first). Then there’s the inconvenient — for Bowman –fact that those are second floor doors.
Second floor doors all seem to open onto balconies, not stairs. I haven’t seen the Cannon building in person in decades, so if someone does know of some second floor exterior stairs, let us know in comments. So it seems extremely unlikely that those doors are normally used to get to the Capitol building in a hurry for floor votes.
As for the “emergency” signs on the doors, video reportedly shows Bowman tearing them off. Vandalism.
And finally, rather than exit through those “usual” doors and rapelling to the ground or whatever, after pulling the wall alarm, Bowman ran away and downstairs to the first floor where he exited the building.
Now, Jamaal’s a Dim, and DC and the DOJ are run by his fellow Dims, so it’s not bloody likely he’ll face any charges unless enough people get angry enough. But let’s take a look at some charges he could face if he had been wearing a MAGA hat.
- DC Code § 22–303: Malicious burning, destruction, or injury of another’s property; misdemeanor, fine and six months in jail.
- DC Code § 22–1319: False alarms and false reports; misdemeanor, good for a $1,000 fine and six months in jail.
- 18 U.S. Code § 1361: Misdemeanor destruction of government property; good for a year in federal prison.
- 18 U.S. Code § 1038: False information and hoaxes; felony good for a fine and five years in prison.
- 18 U.S. Code § 1512(c)(2): Obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so; twenty years in prison, and a fine.
Yep, if he were a Republican private citizen, he would be facing thousands in fines, and decades in prison. 18 U.S. Code § 1361 and 18 U.S. Code § 1512 are what the feds have been using against J6ers.
TZP Column: Ninth Circuit
NINTH CIRCUIT JUDICIAL GAMES
No doubt you’ve heard that federal Judge Benitez once again ruled in Duncan v. Bonta that California’s ban on “high capacity” magazines is unconstitutional; particularly in light of SCOTUS’ BRUEN decision. He stayed his injunction until October 2, to allow the state time to file yet another appeal.
And once again the state did appeal to the Ninth Circuit. Which took the unusal action of taking the state’s “emergency” request for an administrative stay past October 2 en banc. Normally such requests for administrative stays is done by a three judge panel.
The en banc Ninth issued an administrative stay until October 10, 2023.
However, a couple of the Circuit judges wrote dissenting opinions, objecting to the Court gaming the system to delay or deny Second Amendment rights.
I found the dissents to be rather interesting.