Posted on 06/17/2019 7:44:43 AM PDT by SMGFan
The Supreme Court left intact a century-old exception to the Fifth Amendments double jeopardy clause that permits a state and the federal government to prosecute a person for the same criminal offense.
The court ruled 7-2 in declining to overturn the separate sovereigns doctrine, with Justice Samuel Alito delivering the opinion of the court. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Neil Gorsuch dissented.
The case before the high court involved a challenge to the Supreme Courts separate sovereigns doctrine, an exception to the Fifth Amendments double jeopardy clause, which states no one can be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life and limb. Under the separate sovereigns exception, however, a person can be prosecuted in state and federal courts for the same criminal conduct because the states are separate sovereigns.
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But those separate sovereigns only apply to peasants like us. The Elite dont have to worry about mere courts and such drivel.
I seem to recall this is what happened to the Rodney King cops, cleared in CA, but retried by Feds after the “wrong” result.
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Funny how SCOTUS has no problem applying other amendments such as the 1st, the 14th, etc., to the states (even though they are “separate sovereigns”), but will not apply the whole of the 5th Amendment...
Either the Constitution applies to the states, or it doesn’t. If there are exceptions, they must be in the text of the Constitution or the Amendments, not invented by SCOTUS.
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Funny how SCOTUS has no problem applying other amendments such as the 1st, the 14th, etc., to the states (even though they are separate sovereigns), but will not apply the whole of the 5th Amendment...
Either the Constitution applies to the states, or it doesnt. If there are exceptions, they must be in the text of the Constitution or the Amendments, not invented by SCOTUS.
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No ‘funny’, it’s a F* travesty. Course, if govt were consistent then you’re looking @ lose of ‘power’, selective enforcement (friends, family, ‘connected’) and a YUGE drop in the ‘law-lawyer-court-ruling’ turn-style of law-making we have in the U.S.
I doubt ‘void for vagueness’ has passed any lips in over a century.
Well, Ginsburg and Gorsuch were correct on this one.
The answer is clear.
We all need to move to some Red State, turn it the deepest possible Red, and then have our AG start bringing every conceivable state charge against D.C. swamp monsters.
Remember you get all the justice you can afford...One of my lawyer’s told me that and truer words never said...
I just don’t understand how so many conservative judges voted to uphold this, as “not double jeopardy”?
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