No. 22-6469

In Re Kenneth Crawford, Jr.

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2023-01-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: bill-of-rights civil-rights constitution constitutional-limits due-process enumerated-powers federal-government jurisdictional-elements legislative-power legislative-powers territorial-jurisdiction
Latest Conference: 2023-02-17
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Does the Constitution for the United States of America limit the federal government and define the powers of the legislature? Do the enumeration of specific powers presuppose something not enumerated?

2. Do the exceptions from a power mark its extent in the Constitution?

3. If Congress cannot give itself jurisdiction or an undelegated power to punish felonies anywhere it deems "necessary and proper" because jurisdiction "cannot be acquired tortuously by disseisin of the State," (Fort Leavenworth R.R. Co. v Lowe, 114 US 525, 538-539 (1885)), and Congress has legislated this way, by limiting the geographical reach of the statutes charged in this case, does the Department of Justice and the District Court have the authority to recklessly disregard the will of Congress in the legislative acts charged?

4. If the Constitution is the law of the land and it limits Congress's authority to punish by delegating the power to punish in Article I, Sec. 8, cl. 6; Article I, Sec. 8, cl. 10; Article III, Sec. 3, cl. 2, and land ceded or purchased by the federal government with consent of the state's legislature and acceptance of Congress, does the federal government have a burden to prove that the undersigned was geographically located within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States as a part of due process? If there is no evidence on the record that I was physically within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, how can a violation of the statutes charged have occurred?

5. Do the terms "within the District of New Jersey and elsewhere" satisfy due process standards, that jurisdictional elements exist to violate the statutes charged in this case?

6. Is the entirety of the "District of New Jersey" within the "places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" enunciated in 18 U.S.C Part I, Chapter 1, Sec. 5 defined?

7. As a native inhabitant of the Union State, New Jersey, born on the land and soil of Hudson County by parents born on the land and soil of Hudson County New Jersey, am I guaranteed the protections of the first ten amendments of the Bill of Rights listed in the Constitution?

8. If the appellee, the US District Court, and the Circuit Court of Appeals in this case never acknowledge facts of territorial jurisdiction or a lack thereof, my argument regarding proof of territorial jurisdiction and application related to my domicile in Atlantic County, New Jersey, as related to the territorial enunciations in the statutes charged in this case, is not this Court my only remedy and hope? Doesn't this Court have authority to enforce the guarantees in the Bill of Rights when inferior courts do not?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Constitution limit the federal government and define the powers of the legislature?

Docket Entries

2023-02-21
Petition DENIED.
2023-01-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
2023-01-24
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2022-12-30
Petition for a writ of mandamus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 6, 2023)

Attorneys

Kenneth Crawford
Kenneth Crawford Jr. — Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent