Most people pay by the search on Lexis and Westlaw. For that reason they use Justia.com or a similar free site if the only thing they want to do is to print out a case or to quote from a case. I've done it. I do it. Justia represents that it has the text of opinions, including U.S. Supreme Court opinions and U.S. Court of Appeals opinion.
It doesn't say that it edits those opinions from time to time based on the political leanings of its founder. During the 'natural born citizen' controversy, 25 cases that cited Minor v. Happersett had the cite to Minor removed from the case. The Google-based search engine was tweaked so that Minor v. Happersett didn't come up when you searched for U.S. Supreme Court opinions on natural born citizens.
Think of all the attorneys out there, arguing and writing articles, who take advantage of Justia's free Google-based search engine to find cases on 'natural born citizens.' They wouldn't find Minor in their search. If they read the other cases that cite Minor, they wouldn't find Minor, because Justia edited those cases to remove all references to Minor.
Does that make sense? It didn't go to the merits, but they tried to alter public discourse on this topic and to keep the 'experts', the lawyers, talking about it from knowing the U.S. Supreme Court had addressed issues similar to those of Obama's.
I just found out that Justia.com also revised the comments of Constitutional researcher, Dan Goodman on the topic of 'natural born citizen' in an article they published, as well as a case he cited in his comments after posting them on its site. Those are Goodman's words, not mine. Goodman says: "I am of the opinion that this was done intentionally."
As I said, I'm accumulating this, but my mouth is open as I'm finding out more and more.
I'm appalled as somebody who researches using primary sources. Justia. org has won prestigious awards for making the text of primary sources available to lawyers and the public. I can't think of any answer other than it falsifies them for political purposes. The 'coding error' argument has been thoroughly de-bunked, as far as I am concerned.
OMG...
Looks like the judiciary ( and judiciary research), along with the legislative branches of government have been co-opted by the executive branch (and its minions).
Claire Wolfe had a question/observation about an awkward time in a nation’s history...
I believe we are thisclose to the tipping point.
Prepare,pray,persevere!!
What’s really bothering me, besides the blatant dishonesty and lawbreaking, is the power behind this fraud. It’s got to be massive. I sort of wonder if this next election is nothing more than a little show for the tax-paying units so we’ll think we still actually have any power.
I believe they’ve hijacked our country.