The venerable blog Scotusblog (meaning “Supreme Court of the U.S. blog) has chosen Mazo v Way, 22-1033, as a cert petition with a fair chance of being granted by the U.S. Supreme Court. Mazo v Way challenges the New Jersey law that allows a primary candidate to choose a ballot label, up to six words, but which restricts which words the candidate may choose.
The lower federal courts had upheld the law. The plaintiff-candidates have hired Paul Clement to be their attorney in the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a former Solicitor General of the United States. Here is his wikipedia page. Here is the cert petition.
So stupid, so complicated, so unnecessary.
MN has a similar rule for Independent candidates seeking general ballot access. The label can’t be profane or falsely suggest support from a political party.
If it wasn’t clear, I mean voting laws in general.
And, all kinds of laws in general. How in the world can it possibly make sense that ignorance of the law is no excuse from punishment if and when caught, but even knowing what the laws are takes postsecondary education, a professional license, legal research (!), court cases to hash out what the laws even mean, AND they have to be revised every single year by whole teams of professionals whose full time job is to do just that?
How is it not blindingly obvious to EVERYONE how the laws that everyone has to follow, and can and will be punished for not following, are not something everyone can memorize and understand? Seriously, someone please explain how this is anything except objectively insane. Hopefully it should not take a psychiatry degree or license to explain how this system you all seem to take for granted is not CRAZY.
NEW INVENTIONS PLUS SOME SPECIFIC LANGUAGE REQUIRED IN CRIMES / TORTS = MORE LAWS, IN PART.
SPENDING / INFLATION ROT LAWS — NEW EACH YEAR A BIT.
I disagree with A”Trump=Hitler”Z. New inventions can be addressed by the same legal principles as old technology. For example, reckless driving of a horse and carriage, car, boat, or reckless flying of a plane, helicopter, etc, are all in principle the same. Electronic fraud or theft is still fraud or theft. A burglar who uses dynamite hasn’t committed any wrong that a burglar who burgled before dynamite was invented had not also committed, unless it was additional property damage or negligent risk to life and health of others, in which case earlier technologies such as fire could have been addressed in the same way. Threatening, harming, or killing someone with a bullet is no different in principle than doing so with a sharp or blunt object, etc.
Torts should not be a criminal matter. Patriarchs, business councils, neighborhood meetings, and private arbitration firms can address torts. Peace officers should only get involved in case fines are not paid.
Inflation only exists because governments issue currency. In a free currency and value exchange system, contrary to the chaos that those who are unaware of historical examples of such would expect, prices were stable, usually resolved to weights of gold, even if gold was not directly involved in the exchange. Inflation is a byproduct of a combination of dishonest politicians and bureaucrats chiseling financial benefits for themselves and their cronies in ways they hope won’t go noticed (debasement was at first the literal melting of gold coins to mix in base metals), the eternal hubris of central planners, widespread economic ignorance, and manipulation of education, knowledge, information, and education by Luciferian globalist and leftists.
Spending should be according to the needs of peace officers and the national defense military, with poll taxes from voters funding (hopefully part time) peace officers selected from among those same voters, head taxes funding the military, duties on goods and people crossing precinct and especially national borders collected by a combination of both and funding both, and a lot of voluntary contributions and volunteers. Voting would be a meeting of friends and neighbors; the amount of poll tax or head tax does not need to be legislated, it can be informally agreed on and largely customary. Much fewer aspects of social life would have anything to do with either remaining level of government than is the case now.
Anyone else have an actual argument, or intelligent question or criticism? Two throwaway sentences with a broken caps lock are hopefully not the best this crowd can collectively come up with. However, sadly, it may be. Someone, anyone?
MAXZIM- STONE AGE UTOPIA
TYRANT MONARCHS CHOSEN BY TYRANT OLIGARCHS – CUSTOMARY TYRANNY FOR 6,000 PLUS YEARS.
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REAL WORLD-
P-A-T
Why does the AI A”Trump=Hitler”Z bot keep lying about Max plan? Max has made it clear he opposes tyranny, utopia, and monarchs. You can disagree with Max ideas, but lying about what they are is not cool. The AI bot probably doesn’t send the replies it receives to its programmers.
I lie because I hage a small hobbit and I must scream.
OK, fair enough. And why does the other AZ lie? The one who thinks Trump is just like Hitler and may be claiming to be God?