Today in Supreme Court History: May 22, 1807

5/22/1807: Aaron Burr is indicted on charges of treason. Chief Justice John Marshall would preside over Burr's trial.

Aaron Burr

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[DaivdBehar]

In those days, they did not play. They make the modern relentless harasser look weak. They have endless investigations. They have pointless tribunals like impeachment. One thing has never changed. The lawyers on all sides generated worthless make work, and received $millions for their garbage work. These are scams. They should subject the scammers to the lash. To deter.

Beyond the rent seeking scam of the lawyer and its garbage procedures, the Clinton impeachment for lying in a deposition about a blow job, a ridiculous, nitpicking matter, consumed 1000 hours of his time. That should have been spent on Al Qaeda. So the scumbags were a factor in 9/11. That cost the US $7 trillion when the Ivy indoctrinated scumbags in power shut down the economy. It is not too late to lash GW Bush, after proper due process, of course. To deter.

This is the most toxic profession, 1000 times more toxic than organized crime. No organized criminal has caused $7 trillion in damage to us. The lawyer has, and is doing it on a regular basis.

[DaivdBehar]

Look for the waste of time and money of the Biden impeachment. People think the other party is the enemy. It is the rent seeking lawyer. Start taking costs from personal assets. In fairness, any lawyer starts the Biden impeachment needs an ass kicking.

[Dan Schiavetta]

United States Term Limits v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (decided May 22, 1995): States cannot impose term limits on the people it sends to Congress

TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group, 581 U.S. --- (decided May 22, 2017): patent suit must be brought in defendant's state of incorporation under patent venue statute (28 U.S.C. §1400(b)) despite later revision of general venue statute (§1391) with broader language

Cooper v. Harris, 581 U.S. --- (decided May 22, 2017): deferring to District Court's factual determination rejecting North Carolina's redistricting because no reason was shown for increasing percentage of black voters in two districts; plaintiffs (registered voters) not collaterally estopped by State's victory in racial gerrymandering suit brought by civil rights groups

Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon: 581 U.S. --- (decided May 22, 2017): Hague Service Convention (to which the U.S. is a signatory) allows service of suit abroad by mail (suit was by water park against Canadian employee for giving design drawings to competitor)

Wilson v. Arkansas, 514 U.S. 927 (decided May 22, 1995): police do not have to knock first when entering house with a warrant (front door was open; evidence properly admitted that police found defendant flushing drugs down the toilet)

Brigham City v. Stuart, 547 U.S. 398 (decided May 22, 2006): police responding to a disturbance did not need a warrant to enter house after they saw through a screen door one person punch another, causing spitting blood, and after they knocked first though their knocking was not heard

Bankers Trust Co. v. Texas & P.R. Co., 241 U.S. 295 (decided May 22, 1916): mere fact that defendant was corporation chartered by Congress did not mean that any lawsuit against it contains federal issue invoking federal court jurisdiction

Zicarelli v. New Jersey State Comm'n of Investigation, 406 U.S. 472 (decided May 22, 1972): witness in organized crime investigation could not "take the Fifth" after commission had granted him "use and derivative use" immunity