Bundy’s ranch stand off was a bad hill to die on.
This cause is a far stronger one. The father and son did their time over something that they should not have had to go to jail for .... and now a judge wants to set aside the spirit of double jeopardy to make them serve an even longer term because of “minimum” sentencing lawsx
I am more concerned by the absolute nature of Cruz’s comments than the particulars of these rancher cases. If he cannot see an implied right to the use of force in the Second Amendment, or the warning that one intends to exercise the right of self defense or defense of others in the First Amendment, then he far from the legal authority that people like to think he is. If he cannot see those basics of natural law, he is as blind as the ones who see homosexual couplings as marriage are delusional.
I am looking forward to his expanding on this bald dismissal of the very means by which this country was founded. He has to elaborate on what he said.
at age 19, I successfully defended myself against an over zealous prosecutor on a double jeopardy charge once. I defended myself successfully in the initial case too. The judge agreed that I was being tried twice for the same offense and dismissed the case. At about the same age, I successfully defended myself against a hunting without a license charge as well. I was shooting cans by a creek. the cop accused me of hunting without a license. I fought him in court and I got the cop to admit that I had no game on my possession and that I was not, at any time, observed hunting by anyone. Case dismissed. I really should have gone to law school. The tree of liberty can go a while longer without watering IMO.
This is the argument that I don't understand.
The minimum sentencing law was passed by our duly elected representatives and signed by the President. Just the way the Constitution prescribes.
Since when do we support "black-robed tyrants" ignoring the laws and deciding on their own what the right sentence should be?
There in lies the problem. A Constitutional problem.
Next thing you will see, is quartering of soldiers in private homes.
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And that is exactly the root of this problem, nothing more. I would wish that Cruz would tell them he will defend them against the "double jeopardy" ruling.....it is illegal.