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 (from Petition)

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 I. third-party codification of prior laws which .never purported to be nor was intended to be law?

Does Article I §.l of the U.S. Constitution proscribe 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, not an integral and inrte-spensible constituent part of Congress' law making power?II.

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.

What, if any, are the limits of Congress' and its individual constituent members delagatory authority regarding their law making power and what forms and methods, if any, should and must be required and/or practiced and/or followed by the recipients of such delagation and what, if any, conventions should and must the resultant bill(s) by such created delegation conform to?I.

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?

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
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent