No. 19-5685

Larry Brandon Moore v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-08-23
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: article-i bill-drafting congress-authority congressional-power constitution-article-1 constitutional-interpretation law-making-authority legislative-delegation positive-law prior-laws statutory-codification third-party-codification title-18 title-18-usc
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity Immigration
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does Article I of the U.S. Constitution confer on Congress such authority as to have enacted 62 Stat 683 et seq into positive law thereby enacting, specifically, Title 18 of United States Code - a third-party codification of prior laws which never purported to be nor was intended to be law?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED La a I. Does Article I of the U.S. Constitution . confer on Congress such authority as to have enacted 62 Stat 683 et seq into positive law thereby enacting, specifically, Title 18 of . United States Code a third-party . codification of prior laws which never ; ’ purported to be nor was intended to be law? , II. Does Article I § 1 of the U.S. Constitution proseriibe both Congress as a whole and the individual members thereof, from delegating to others, be they lawyers, advisors, interns, independent citizens, government appointees, : publishing companies, business or industries, elected officials not part of Congress, or any combination, organization, team or, groups thereof the drafting of bills which can : become laws? Which is, in turn, to ask: is . the drafting of bills, intended to become | . law, mot an integral and indespensible ; , ; constituent ‘part of Congress' law making . power? : If the answer to Question 2 is found to be no.,. then the question of the limit of Congress' law. making authority becomes suddenly | ambiguous. In the case of such an event, Petitioner asks that this Court additionally answer the following Supplemental Question to both relieve this ambiguity and ensure that the ; : limits of Congress' power are well defined and established for : the nation and the people thereof as a whole. : SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTION(S) i . I. What, if any, are the limits of Congress' and . its individual constituent members delagatory . sauthority regarding their law making power : : and what forms and methods, if any, should and must be required and/or practiced and/or noe followed by the recipients of such delagation : : and what, if any, conventions should and must the resultant bill(s) created by such vs . delegation conform to? 7 .

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-09-03
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-07-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 23, 2019)

Attorneys

Larry B. Moore
Larry Brandon Moore — Petitioner
Larry Brandon Moore — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent