Ammon Bundy is an 'originalist' just like Antonin Scalia, says defense

[struggle4progress]

Sam Levin in San Francisco
Monday 9 May 2016 15.06 EDT

... Ammon Bundy was a peaceful protester advocating the constitutional beliefs of US supreme court justices Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia, according to the jailed activist’s formal defense filed on Monday ...

The new motion claims that Bundy identifies as a “federalist” and an “originalist”, meaning he believes the federal government has overstepped its authority by owning vast swaths of land in the west and has strayed beyond its limited jurisdiction the founders intended ...

Although constitutional experts, bolstered by a number of court decisions, have repeatedly refuted the Bundys’ claims and affirmed the government’s land-use authority, Ammon’s lawyers say the supreme court should specifically address “whether Congress can forever retain the majority of the land within a State” ...

A spokesperson for the US district attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment ...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/09/ammon-bundy-oregon-militia-standoff-antonin-scalia

[struggle4progress]

1. Ammon Bundy's Lawyers Move to Dismiss the Charges

By COLIN MINER
May 9, 2016 4:56 pm ET

Arguing that what the federal government describes as an armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was actually an "act of civil disobedience and a calculated legal maneuver," lawyers for Ammon Bundy ... maintain that "the protest was in part designed to force the federal government into court to address the constitutionality of its federal land management policy" ...

http://patch.com/oregon/portland/oregon-standoff-lates-ammon-bundys-lawyers-move-dismiss-charges-0

[Actor]

2. Ammon Bundy was and is an asshole who is very angry that a black man is running the

country.

End

of

Story



(He doesnt know what an originalist is, he doesnt understand what a federalist is, he didnt know those words existed a year ago)

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Agree

[sharp_stick]

5. True and that itself makes him

pretty similar to the piece of shit Antonin Scalia.

[tabasco]

4. Well sheeeeiiiit Ammon!

Why didn't you say so?? If you told us you were an "originalist" we never would have made all this fuss. Why go right ahead and beat your wife and keep African-Americans for slaves. After all, under the original constitution, it was okey dokey!!

[Shrike47]

6. This argument would be more successful (but still a loser) if he hadn't carried a gun.

[truebluegreen]

7. i.e. an inconsistent, cherry-picking originalist?

That should be persuasive.

[Initech]

8. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.