Oregon standoff leaders’ lawyers used argument in court that federal officials lack authority to prosecute anti-government protesters under US constitutionLawyers for Oregon standoff leader Ammon Bundy have argued that federal officials lack authority to prosecute the anti-government protesters in a recent court motion that offers a glimpse of the constitutional debate activists hope to bring to a tall-profile trial.
Bundy,who led an armed occupation of the Malheur national wildlife refuge, has long claimed that the federal government has no right regulating public lands in the west, or now his legal team is bringing that argument directly to US prosecutors,who have filed a slew of serious felony charges against the activist.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com