After this brouhaha, every conservative legal eagle and constitutional scholar in the United States willl be lining up to represent Bundy. I’m guessing he’ll do all right and Obama and his minions will end up grinding their teeth.
Yes... even though we don’t want to see Bundy scrod, if he’s a little bit screw loose (some say he claims not to be a US citizen — okay, what if he wanted to run for President?) he might be tilting at windmills in court and missing what he ought to be arguing.
I hope so. Little 34 year-old Neil Kornze, the fresh out of the box director of BLM is holding on to the one million in back rents every time he opens his mouth.
It seems that Bundy was and is willing to pay the rents to an authority that he recognizes that he has a contract with... the county. The rents suddenly became payable to the feds and if he pays that he sets the precedent of having recognized that authority. A bad move on his part.
This goes back to the Sagebrush Rebellion of 1991 when the cattlemen actually won but a three judge appeals court overturned that favorable ruling when Reagan and Bush 1 left office. There is no uniform law, only the current regime.
“After this brouhaha, every conservative legal eagle and constitutional scholar in the United States willl be lining up to represent Bundy.”
I doubt it. The legal arguments he uses have never won in court. My guess is the government will ask a court for liens against his bank accounts and against any future sale of cattle. Banks (FDIC) will turn over money and protestors cannot stop it.
“He [Bundy] says he doesn’t recognize federal authority over state land...Arizona state Rep. Bob Thorpe of Flagstaff said he and state legislators weren’t arguing whether Bundy broke laws or violated grazing agreements.”
If the feds don’t have authority over the land, then Arizona needs to take back 11,000 sq miles Congress took from Arizona and gave to Nevada by an act of Congress in 1866...and Utah needs to take back 21,000 sq miles given to Nevada at the same time.
I sure hope you're correct. Otherwise the feds will bankrupt him with legal fees.
I doubt it. From a legal perspective, Bundy does not have much of a case. He has already lost two federal court rulings and the finding of facts in those cases go against Bundy. It is very difficult to get a court to review findings of fact of another court and even harder to overturn those findings.