Al Qaeda Lawyer Blown Out in Supreme Court Ruling In Suit To Seize Old Woman’s Home and Take All the Profits

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I have so many thoughts on this story. First, note how the lawyer for al Qaeda terrorists represents the government – the Minneapolis Hennepin County (Ilhan Omar’s district). He was also was an acting solicitor general under Obama.Here again we see another terrible example of post-America, those who stand with our enemies are richly, richly rewarded while those of us who fight in defense of America and individual rights are smeared, defamed and relegated to the fringe.

This case is deeply disturbing, more so because it had to go all the way to the Supreme Court to see justice. It should never have happened. An elderly woman owed $2,300 in taxes and out of control government seized her home and all the profits from its sale. The al Qaeda lawyer argued before the Supreme Court Wednesday that a Minnesota county was in the right when it confiscated an elderly woman’s condo and took all the profits from its sale over a small unpaid tax.

Hennepin County, which contains Minneapolis, confiscated an elderly woman’s condo and took all the profits from its sale over a small unpaid tax. The county received $40,000 from the sale of Geraldine Tyler’s condo after the county seized the property in 2015 over $2,300 in unpaid taxes. Tyler, now 94, owed $15,000 in total with penalties and interest on the unpaid taxes.

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Al Qaeda Lawyer Neal Katyal Blown Out in Supreme Court Ruling

Unanimous Court rejects Katyal’s argument that county can seize old woman’s home and take all the profits

By: Free Beacon, May 26, 2023:

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday against a left-wing lawyer after he tried to convince the justices that a Minnesota county was right to take all the profits from the sale of a home it confiscated from an elderly woman.

Supreme Court justices were unconvinced by arguments last month from lawyer Neal Katyal, who once defended Al Qaeda terrorists. Katyal defended Hennepin County, which contains Minneapolis, after it confiscated an elderly woman’s condo and took all the profits from its sale over a small unpaid tax. The county received $40,000 from the sale of Geraldine Tyler’s condo after the county seized the property in 2015 over $2,300 in unpaid taxes. Tyler, now 94, owed $15,000 in total with penalties and interest on the unpaid taxes.

The High Court ruled that states that seize and sell private property to make up for unpaid taxes cannot keep more from the sales than what a taxpayer owed.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the Court’s opinion. “The county had the power to sell Tyler’s home to recover the unpaid property taxes,” Roberts wrote, but added that the county “could not use the toehold of the tax debt to confiscate more property than was due.”

The justices appeared unconvinced by Katyal’s arguments in April. Justice Neil Gorsuch mocked the lawyer’s argument that expensive properties could be seized for minuscule missing payments. “So a $5 property tax, a million dollar property, good to go?” Gorsuch asked Katyal, who answered in the affirmative.

Katyal, who was acting solicitor general under former president Barack Obama, is no stranger to representing controversial defendants. He is known as a member of the “al Qaeda 7,” a group of lawyers who represented al Qaeda terrorists against the Bush administration.

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VMS
VMS
10 months ago

Whether or not this lawyer represented terrorists is irrelevant to the tax case at bar. But, he is grossly lacking in the area of equity which is part of every law school curriculum. Equity does what aught to be done, when following the letter of the law leads to absurd results. And something is wrong with the judges in the courts below. One would think that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals would get it right and stop the lunacy at the circuit level. But no, they sided with the government.

Maybe it’s a good thing that the Supreme Court took and decided this case. Equity theft by the taxing authorities is a problem around the whole country. This ruling will protect everybody from such overreaching practices.

As an added note, if one defaults on a mortgage, and the bank forecloses and sells the property in a foreclosure sale, the bank doesn’t get to keep anything in excess of the amount owed to them (mortgage payments, interest, reasonable late fees, and reasonable attorneys’ fees if the loan agreement so provides).

whirlwinder
whirlwinder
10 months ago

Why are we allowing Muslims to hold positions of power in our society? Islam is America’s civilizational enemy as they have stated to conquer our country in the global jihad. Show me how many Americans hold powerful positions in the governments of countries (mostly Islamic). Islamic doctrine and shariah law are totally opposite with the rule of law and justice in America and western civilization.

THX 1138
THX 1138
10 months ago

“In a fully free society, taxation—or, to be exact, payment for governmental services—would be voluntary. Since the proper services of a government—the police, the armed forces, the law courts—are demonstrably needed by individual citizens and affect their interests directly, the citizens would (and should) be willing to pay for such services, as they pay for insurance.

The question of how to implement the principle of voluntary government financing—how to determine the best means of applying it in practice—is a very complex one and belongs to the field of the philosophy of law. The task of political philosophy is only to establish the nature of the principle and to demonstrate that it is practicable. The choice of a specific method of implementation is more than premature today—since the principle will be practicable only in a fully free society, a society whose government has been constitutionally reduced to its proper, basic functions….

Any program of voluntary government financing has to be regarded as a goal for a distant future.

What the advocates of a fully free society have to know, at present, is only the principle by which that goal can be achieved.

The principle of voluntary government financing rests on the following premises: that the government is not the owner of the citizens’ income and, therefore, cannot hold a blank check on that income—that the nature of the proper governmental services must be constitutionally defined and delimited, leaving the government no power to enlarge the scope of its services at its own arbitrary discretion. Consequently, the principle of voluntary government financing regards the government as the servant, not the ruler, of the citizens—as an agent who must be paid for his services, not as a benefactor whose services are gratuitous, who dispenses something for nothing.” – Ayn Rand

PatDD
PatD
10 months ago

Nothing lower than the parasitic feral animal muslims and dumocrap libtards!!!!! the only good one is a dead one!

UES
UES
10 months ago

India is completely up in arms with huge arguments, debates and discussions about a movie called THE KERALA STORY, which deals with muslim grooming and conversion of hindu and christian girls – love jihad.

Snowedin
Snowedin
10 months ago

The muzzys in this country deserve nothing except being rounded up and deported.

HardrockD
Hardrock
10 months ago
Reply to  Snowedin

Better yet. Thrown into the Chipper. That way they don’t come back.

BexarKat
BexarKat
10 months ago

This Judge Roberts is exactly the type of jurist we need on the bench in every district throughout this country. His judgment was fair. It shows why the judicial system must continue to be independent of the legislative and executive at not only every state level but the federal level as well.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
10 months ago

I would have preferred Obama to be the lawyer for al Qaeda, that’s his people. He gave his brethern $150 billion again congress, landed a brand new drone to Iran etc. Read his book…The Dreams of My Father (Muslim).

edD
ed
9 months ago

Omar’s district. Those two words say it all….

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