Author: Chris Johnson
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SCOTUS watch (Updated)
As of 1100 Tuesday, we have heard that cert was NOT denied in Snope nor in Ocean State Tactical. This means that when the dockets are updated later today, we are likely to see them Distributed for Conference of 1/24/2025. This is as expected. NEXT Monday is when I become concerned, if the cases are…
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Is it Moral? Is it Legal? Is it Constitutional?
Is it Moral? We all have a moral code. Some people have a moral code that is more restrictive than yours. Some people have a moral code less restrictive than yours. Occasionally, a moral code is imposed by outside authorities. Such a moral code is unlikely to be “your” moral code. You might agree with…
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Tick Tock, More Clock Stuff
There are two network time protocols in use today. One is the NTP protocol, the other is PTP. I have no idea what the PTP looks like, I know that it requires hardware support. The goal of NTP is to create a local clock that is accurate to less than 1ms from sources that have…
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The Boy That Cried Wolf
First, Mark Smith is a lawyer. I am not. Much of the “inside baseball” I’ve learned from listening to Mark and others like him on YouTube. His analysis of many cases is spot on. Many times his analysis guides mine. I enjoy listening to him. To put it differently, I enjoy him attempting to “make…
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Reading The Docket
Ally came to me the other day upset about the TikTok case. One of her issues was that the AP was reporting that they couldn’t report more because it was “sealed”. I found this to be unusual and went to the source to find out what is going on. What I found was somewhat different.…
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How to Win without Winning
There are places where I feel sorry for The People. People in California seem to have gotten what they wanted. The people of Illinois, not so much. The lower court of the State recently issued an order in favor of The People, but not of the Second Amendment. This was a win. The people of…
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Confirmation Hearings
The world is changing. When Judge Bork was being attacked by Joe Biden and the Democrats on the Senate confirmation committee, it was something new. We had never seen a Supreme Court nominee being so maligned. It was the dirty tricks writ large and in color. Justice Thomas had another slanderous hearing. He was strong…
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Tuesday Tunes + SCOTUS babble
Next Monday we will see Snope and Ocean State Tactical granted cert or relisted. Right now, there are 100s of lawyers writing briefs for these cases. I expect to see over a thousand pages submitted to the Supreme Court. Bruen was distributed for Conference on 4/1/2021, 4/16/2021, and 4/23/2021. Cert was granted 4/26/2021. The parties…