Alexander Hamilton dreamt of transforming America into a fiscal military empire by establishing a central bank. His dream came to fruition many years later when the Federal Reserve marketed Liberty Bonds to Americans to fund the nation’s entry into WWI.
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In Humphrey’s Executor v. US, #SCOTUS upheld the constitutionality of independent boards removable only for cause. But the Court allowed the removal of a member of the NLRB anyway in Trump v. Wilcox. Now Trump has fired a member of the Federal Reserve Board.
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In the wake of Dobbs, many predicted the end of substantive due process. But in Maribelli v. Bonta, the #scotus majority held that a parent’s right to be informed by the school of their child’s gender transition is protected by substantive due process. #law
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“Glub glub, comrade” - communist fish, probably
Today, populism is associated with the politics of anger, reaction, and unreason. It evokes enraged mobs wielding pitchforks and torches. But the Populist Party of the late nineteenth century was very different. #law #history #populism senatormoobs.substack.com/p/bimetallis...
Although Swift v. Tyson (1842) is widely considered wrongly decided today, a uniform system of laws governing commercial transactions crossing state lines was thought crucial in the early Republic for economic development. #history #scotus #economics #law
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Yeah!
Something that most people today don’t know about John Quincy Adams is that he was a stone-cold legend. #history #law
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Jury nullification FTW!
Although Hamby pre-dates Obergefell, it was still based on the 14th amendment, so overruling Obergefell would overrule it as well.
People assume that when they deposit money into a checking account, it stays “there” at the bank. In fact, banks lend your deposits to earn interest. If the bank has double-booked your funds, what happens when you all try to withdraw it at the same time?
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I wonder where the far right learned that they could mobilize their voters by stoking racial grievance from the premise that American society and institutions are structurally biased against them.
Negotiability was the key legal concept in the emergence of paper money as a medium of exchange. Although negotiable instruments sound like something obscure and technical, regular people use them all the time. #law #history #economics
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“The Constitution” is not the same thing as “precedent set by previous courts”
If driving 100 mph were in the course and scope of federal duties (imagine they were pursing a fleeing tax dodger), no, the state may not do anything about it.
Attiah materially altered the “verified quote” attributed to Kirk without indicating that she had done so or how.
We experience the control of money as a governmental function. But economic theory holds money is a natural product of market forces, and its regulation is best left to those forces.
Where does money come from? And, like, what even is money? #economics
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As I understand it, the response on the right is that law enforcement in jurisdictions run by Democrats are gaming crime statistics by under-charging or failing to charge obvious crimes.
In his war against the Bank of the U.S., President Jackson sought to break the power of the financial class, but instead he unshackled a chaotic and unregulated money system that would fuel economic instability for generations. #history #federalreserve
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Finally the court held evidence showing Klutchnikov had engaged in paper staking in the past was not inadmissible character evidence prohibited by Rule of Evidence 404(b). Although the plaintiff had not shown an overall “scheme,” evidence of past bad acts was admissible to show lack of accident.
The court also held that the defendant could show undue prejudice based on harm to a third party, where the third party had a”grubstake” investment in the claim (money advanced to a prospector for a share in any findings).
The court first considered whether the defendant was entitled raise a defense of laches against a declaratory judgment claim, since laches applies only to equitable claims and not those at law. Since the claim was in substance a quiet title action (equitable), laches applied.
The alleged paper-staker (Klutchnikov) was “lost at sea,” but Baker pursued Klutchnikov’s successor in interest, Amerigold, to bench trial and won.
the #Alaska #SupremeCourt considered an allegation of “paper staking” in a case involving conflicting mining claims. Paper staking occurs when someone recording a mining claim lies about having actually gone and physically marked the ground with “monuments.”
Omg #AlaskaSky has anybody read Amerigold Holdings LLC v. Baker?
Mining claims, shady land deals, “paper staking,” “grubstakes,” witnesses lost at sea… this case is vintage #Alaska
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Easy. POTUS issues a blatantly unlawful executive order expropriating Alaska’s rights and when the action is challenged, SCOTUS refuses the case under original jurisdiction without explanation and then overturns the subsequent district court stay on the shadow docket, also w/o explanation.