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How horrifying, not extracting maximum revenue from the cattle!
"He said: “Prosecutions that are driven by targets, statistics and finance have no place in this courtroom and bring the administration of justice into disrepute."
Exactomundo. He is right. The high court is wrong. He is outing the government grifter class for its grifting. How horrifying!
"“I have come to the conclusion that [speed camera contractors] GoSafe deliberately targeted an unjust speed zone in the townland of Clogheen, where there were rich pickings and, as the saying goes, they were shooting fish in a barrel.”"
Yeah, what a renegade judge! How scary to say such things!
O authoritarian high court, protect us from judges like this, who see us as more than tax cattle!
"Mr Justice Ferriter said that the judge’s approach was “wrong” in law and inappropriate comment for a judge to make as his role was not to express a view on correctness of speed limits adjudicated by another body."
This thinking is how authoritarians construct a Rube Goldberg money machine that cannot be questioned.
The lower court judge has a duty to prohibit corruption in the law from determining his decisions. The judiciary does not serve the legislature. The judiciary is separate from the legislature and is to serve as a check against corrupt legislation and enforcement.
How horrifying that one judge actually gets it!
If the world had more judges who acted sua sponte to point out corruption in the laws, and reject them based upon that, it would be a better world to live in.
We all know that traffic laws have ZERO, NADA, NAUGHT, NIL, ZILCH, and ZIP to to with safety and are about funneling revenue to 3rd party contractors, and maintaining the fear of constant police presence in the minds of the citizenry. This judge was just pointing out the obvious.
"Whether the summer of 1812 or the spring of 2026, Canada's #Indigenous people have always been the first and last line of defense against American annexation… we will never bend the knee to foreign tyrants or their useful idiots." —Chief Allan Adam
SCOTUS rules that ordinary Americans do NOT owe income tax!
SCOTUS just contradicted a century of circuit courts and their malicious rulings subjecting Americans to the income tax. Will anyone notice?
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Dr Champion shows you the astounding words of a recent US Supreme Court decision, in which the Court explains why Americans need not pay income tax! The Court also bitch-slapped half the US Circuit Courts of Appeal in the process. A truly phenomenal decision! (Recorded December 4, 2024.)
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#Afroman #President #Rappers #RapMusic #Courts #Elections #Humor #Jokes #Comedy
Federal #courts have since blocked the data-sharing arrangement, holding that it violates #taxpayers’ rights, though the #FederalGovernment appealed those rulings.
Before the agreement was struck down, #DHS requested the addresses of 1.2 million individuals from the #IRS. The tax agency responded with data on 47,000 individuals, acc/to court records.
Ohio Supreme Court rules school’s newsletter email list to parents and students must be made public under state law
Opponents argued it was restricted to protect student's #privacy
The decision stems from a mandamus action filed by Darbi Boddy, a former Lakota Local School District board member in Butler County who sought the newsletter distribution list used by the superintendent to email weekly updates to families and community members.
Arrested for Telling a Cop to Shut UP-James Freeman is Suing to Rename This Texas City
#Corruption #Cops #Police #Thugs #Tyranny #Government #Law #Legal #Courts #Lawsuit #Constitution
…The moves by #Trump to elevate #election deniers portends escalating #legal battles over how much #power his admin wields over balloting across the country.
Already this year, #courts have affirmed that the president has no legal authority over #elections, which have long been the domain of #state & #local governments. Judges have largely blocked an executive order that Trump issued in March requiring, among other changes, documentary proof of citizenship to vote.
#US #courts set to run out of money, begin furloughs as #shutdown lingers
The US federal court system starting on Monday will begin curtailing non-essential functions & furloughing some employees after exhausting what funds the #judiciary had left to sustain paid operations during the US #GovernmentShutdown.
#law #Trump #OrchestratedShutdown
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-courts-set-run-out-money-begin-furloughs-shutdown-lingers-2025-10-17/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
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Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the only two Black jurors had voted not guilty.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lloyd-gray-louisiana-split-juries-history?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed
Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.
Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.
Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.
#SMUD #SmartMeters #EFF #Privacy #Utilities #Electricity #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Spying #4thAmendment #WarrantlessSearch #Constitution #CivilRights #Courts #Lawsuit #SCOTUS #Cops #Police #Extortion #Fraud