I can only imagine.Speaking only for myself, I think this particular passage from the brief perfectly captures my frustration with the funhouse mirrors aspect of the Fourth Circuit panel’s ruling:
I can only imagine.Speaking only for myself, I think this particular passage from the brief perfectly captures my frustration with the funhouse mirrors aspect of the Fourth Circuit panel’s ruling:
Oh boy. Thinking about you, brothers.Attn: @Adolph Oliver Bush, @Not_an_outlaw, @Bob A, @hillbilly grandpa, and @zenMonkey!
The Court has announced our case is to be “distributed for conference” of the Justices on Friday, December 1, 2023.
Sorry, poor choice of words on my part. I think I better understand what the result will be.
I merely showed up that night like I did on many prior nights to carry the fight to the heart of the Antis.Attn: @Adolph Oliver Bush, @Not_an_outlaw, @Bob A, @hillbilly grandpa, and @zenMonkey!
The Court has announced our case is to be “distributed for conference” of the Justices on Friday, December 1, 2023.
Sure was nice to see “Rack and Roll” pop up, again…even if only a thread from 2018.
Yes, thanks, it sure was.
The pics were posted in the Red Hen Restaurant closing thread in a sentimental remembrance of that Patriot Picket mission; those pics came to mind because of the breaking news about the Red Hen on Thanksgiving Day.
Today’s news: we are exactly *one week* away from the Friday 12/1 conference of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, where our cert petition will finally be considered.
Here is a pic of Jeff in our legal counsel Cary Hansel’s office in Baltimore, also in 2018, holding copies of the 3 citations we each received after our arrest that led to this week’s cert petition, now more than five years and nine months later:
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After all those years without a single day in a trial court, we still want that day.
We are praying now for the cert grant, and then eventually a ruling from the Court to significantly revise or overturn the doctrine of qualified immunity, to guarantee in the future that under the law no one else will be arrested by their own government for lawfully petitioning that government for a redress of grievances, or for recording video and audio in public, only to have the arresting officer(s) make the claim afterwards that the law in this Circuit (or in half of the other U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal) prevents any accountability by police or other public officials for violating those rights.
Your support and encouragement has kept my spirit up, and I’m very grateful to you all for your kind words and support over these many years.
Now, as this decision nears, I am asking for your prayers.
many prayers given brother. I miss your brother a ton. Still look at pics he sent of his time in FL with the rocket take offs and his conversion of the trailer. Hope you and your family are well.Yes, thanks, it sure was.
The pics were posted in the Red Hen Restaurant closing thread in a sentimental remembrance of that Patriot Picket mission; those pics came to mind because of the breaking news about the Red Hen on Thanksgiving Day.
Today’s news: we are exactly *one week* away from the Friday 12/1 conference of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, where our cert petition will finally be considered.
Here is a pic of Jeff in our legal counsel Cary Hansel’s office in Baltimore, also in 2018, holding copies of the 3 citations we each received after our arrest that led to this week’s cert petition, now more than five years and nine months later:
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After all those years without a single day in a trial court, we still want that day.
We are praying now for the cert grant, and then eventually a ruling from the Court to significantly revise or overturn the doctrine of qualified immunity, to guarantee in the future that under the law no one else will be arrested by their own government for lawfully petitioning that government for a redress of grievances, or for recording video and audio in public, only to have the arresting officer(s) make the claim afterwards that the law in this Circuit (or in half of the other U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal) prevents any accountability by police or other public officials for violating those rights.
Your support and encouragement has kept my spirit up, and I’m very grateful to you all for your kind words and support over these many years.
Now, as this decision nears, I am asking for your prayers.
Two weeks from today - - on Monday morning, December 4, 2023 at 9:30 AM - - the Clerk of the Supreme Court will publish orders revealing the disposition of pending cert petitions.
This will include most or all of the petitions scheduled for consideration at the Friday, December 1, 2023 conference, possibly including “Hulbert v. Pope.”
Mark W. Smith in the “Four Boxes Diner” video below gives a very good explanation of the four typical dispositions of cert petitions at conference, granted, denied, relisted or held, with respect to the “Rahimi” (recently argued) and “Range” (cert petition pending) 2A cases:
(The explanation of how cert petitions are handled at conference begins at the 4:00 minute mark.)
A “discuss list” of petitions is maintained for each conference by the Chief Justice; only petitions on the discuss list are considered for a vote of the Justices at each conference.
Before the conference any Justice may request a cert petition be added to the discuss list.
It is estimated only 20% to 30% of cert petitions “distributed for conference” have been recommended by the Justices’ law clerks for consideration of a cert grant, and are included on the discuss list for that conference.
We cannot know if our cert petition has been included on the 12/1/23 discuss list, because the list is not made public.
Petitions distributed for conference but not discussed at that conference are automatically “dead-listed” and denied.
Our docket at the U.S. Supreme Court has been updated today.
Our cert petition was rescheduled for distribution to the conference of the Justices on Friday, December 8, 2023.
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Not certain.sooo. this is one of the desired results? a good omen? the fact that it will receive additional review?
Could they consolidate any of the cases? Are they similar enough?