Breaking a Law…That Doesn’t Exist Yet
generally don’t care anymore what the “supreme court” says about jack, but will be paying attention to the increased mess they could launch “ruling” on this one, for it’s a blatant violation of both the commerce and ex post facto clauses of the slimy doc.
[...] When authorities checked Carr’s criminal history, they discovered that he had previously committed a sex offense and was not registered as a sex offender under Indiana state law or the federal statute called the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Carr was clearly in violation of Indiana law, but claims he shouldn’t be subject to punishment under SORNA, a law that went into effect more than a year after he moved to Indiana and three years after committing the sex offense. [...]
will not be surprising if, as usual, the cloaked tyrants rule based on a romper-room lord-schoolmarm assessment of “society”, rather than dispassionate parsing of the “supreme Law” they swore to support. fun to note, again, that “supreme” is not capitalized anywhere in the US constitution.
this in the article (shocker):
[...] Some legal scholars speculate that enacting SORNA was the federal government’s way of usurping power from the states to more harshly punish sex offenders. “The state laws work,” [John Marshall Law School's Corey] Yung says. “For the federal government to take over cases merely because someone passes between states seems wrong. At that point, why even have state criminal laws?” Essentially, the federal government could claim to have jurisdiction over specific issues when individuals cross state lines at any point in their lives. “It’s a genuine threat to the liberty of citizens,” he adds. [...]
sounds familiar:
It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression,… that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary–an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States and the government be consolidated into one. To this I am opposed.
(from this guy.)