Trespass at Middle Sex

Donny Baby!

I believe we can agree not to disagree that the overwhelming majority of voters in VA8 agree with you on abortion, as we saw at the last town hall in McLean, and also regarding the position that these religious advocates should not be pushing their religion on the rest of us. So, let's go with that, and move to ethics, morality and law. I have corresponded with Merrick on this, which is probably why he describes me as a litigation hobbyist, and I have raised this in correspondence with Matt Graves, a fellow alumnus of Washington & Lee, albeit missing each other on campus by a decade, during which, apparently, the honor system we often promote has undergone some great changes.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nine-defendants-indicted-federal-civil-rights-conspiracy-and-freedom-access-clinic-entrances#:~:text=The%20defendants%20were%20charged%20with%20conspiracy%20against%20rights,providing%2C%20and%20patients%20from%20receiving%2C%20reproductive%20health%20services.

As you know, we had nine pro-life activists indicted by U.S. Attorney Graves in March 2022, with the headline about the FACE Act, but packing a whooping punch under 18 U.S.C. Section 241, which even the DoJ Practice Manual describes as the "Mississippi Burning Law", stating expressly that there is a "color of law" requirement of proof. Simply, we cannot charge, indict or convict these folks unless they had been conspiring with government actors, agents or representatives to pull of this alleged felony that carries a maximum sentence of ten years, which not even Ray Killen got in Meridian Mississippi for the murders of Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman. It is practically ludicrous that five folks over 60 had traveled to DC, overwhelmed staff and security at an abortion facility and committed a felony offense to put them in jail for a decade, and even the DC police didn't bring charges in October 2020 when this occurred. But along comes our poor boy from Reading, with a scholarship at W&L, and graduation to Yale Law School, enough to get a clerkship, and a job at WilmerHale, but apparently he was not quite partner track material. NOKD. You know the deal.

So, he goes off to the U.S. Attorney's office to serve penance, gets some creds fighting corruption, and after a few years he is now deemed good enough to become a partner at DLA Piper, which apparently, he wanted pretty bad to validate himself. De Tocqueville had never met in America with anyone so poor as not to cast a glance of hope and envy upon the enjoyments of the rich, and maybe that top dog spot as the U.S. Attorney gave him what he wanted, at the cost of ethics and morals. Unscrupulous. And now he has alleged a trespass at Middlesex to convict a ban of seniors? It is like a law that you can't convene a grand jury without being able to satisfy the elements of proof, but he needed a felony to get the grand jury and the press release, but rather than just dropping the charge after getting the grand jury, he went on to push for the indictment and now is going to trial? Who is he trying to impress? Satan?

Maybe you can get some of your antireligion folks to help the kid understand that Satan always screws you in the end, and it ain't worth it. You know how those crazy religious fanatics can be.