No. 21-215

Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States Congress, et al.

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2021-08-13
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: 13th-amendment 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction due-process government-consent petition-for-redress second-amendment self-defense thirteenth-amendment
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity Securities
Latest Conference: 2021-10-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does petitioner need the government's consent to petition the government for redress of his grievance

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED . 1. Does petitioner need the government’s consent to petition the government for redress of his grievance that the government has held him in Thirteenth Amendment slavery beyond the term of his punishment pronounced by the judge who duly sentenced him for his crime, and is petitioner’s status as a government slave defined by petitioner having only those federal Constitutional rights that the federal and State governments choose to grant him? 2. Without granting petitioner, an emancipated Thirteenth Amendment slave, due process of law, is it Constitutional for the government to impose as a condition of his liberty that he not exercise his Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home; and is petitioner entitled to a receipt from the government that he has paid his debt to society by discharging his judicially pronounced Thirteenth Amendment sentence? .

Docket Entries

2021-10-18
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/15/2021.
2021-09-13
Waiver of right of respondent United States Congress to respond filed.
2021-08-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 13, 2021)

Attorneys

Barry J. Smith
Barry J. Smith — Petitioner
United States Congress
Brian H. FletcherActing Solicitor General, Respondent