We finally got a decision. We have been waiting for months… well, really years… for Judge Roger T. Benitez to release his opinion in Duncan v Bonta. You may remember this originally as Duncan v Becerra. California has Penal Code § 32310(c) and (d) that was amended by Proposition 63 which essentially made the mere possession of a...
Lincoln stared past me. His etched visage looking out towards somewhere in empty space contemplating some great cone disconnected from what the artist had posted as a quote below him. “A house divided cannot stand.” It’s written in script to give it an old timey solemnity. When quoting the bard, even if it is Lincoln quoting Shakespeare,...
“Bearing arms does not mean from your bathroom to your kitchen!” That little missive was penned by Justice Clarence Thomas in a dissent to the granting of certiorari on a Second Amendment case a few years back. The gravamen of the case centered around the question: Does the Second Amendment provide protection for conduct outside the...
It has been said Nero rejoiced in the destruction of Rome. That might be pushing it a bit… I think he reached a point of being so overwhelmed he lost his capacity for rational thought. His “joy” may have been, in a sense, a self-defense mechanism. We now find ourselves similarly situated. Rome is burning… or to...
In 2014 I was having a conversation with my friend, Rich Nelson. At the time he was a deputy with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. More specifically, he was the Administrative Deputy for Lake Forest and spent a good chunk of his time here at Artemis, both in his law enforcement capacity, as well as...
In the introductory pages of John le Carré’s, The Night Manager, a lawyer is about to be executed. He is trying to process the enormity and finality of the moment and becomes fixated on the instrument of his demise, specifically the gun being pointed at him. He does not reflect on the circumstances that led him to...
“Hear me now, oh, thou bleak and unbearable world Thou art base and debauched as can be And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee! Hear me, heathens and wizards and serpents of sin All your dastardly doings are past For a holy endeavor is now to begin And virtue shall triumph at last!” So...
Well, I had every intention of writing a blog this week about either God, the transcendent human condition, why I really like gefilte fish, or the demographic catastrophe about to manifest on the European continent… But, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum, so to speak. We got a victory in federal court (well…...
Sitting back in my office chair, I watched the video on my computer intently. Security footage showed the famed “QAnon Shaman” casually walking through the Capitol, seemingly being escorted at times by the Capitol police. This video was one of thousands Speaker McCarthy had released to Tucker Carlson of FoxNews and was now being broadcast....
MAJOR NEWS!!! Injunction issued regarding CA Roster!!! I was in Federal Court today making an appearance on an unrelated matter when my phone began to blow up….in a really really good way! The California Rifle and Pistol Association, (CRPA) in conjunction with the law firm of Michele and Associates had filed a lawsuit challenging the CA Handgun Roster. ...
