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Democracy Chronicles

Goodbye Roe v. Wade, Goodbye Rule Of Law

by Andrew Straw - May 5, 2022

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As my readers know, the Indiana Supreme Court has suspended me for 63 months because a handful of federal judges disapproved of my arguments in federal court, calling my arguments frivolous without sanctioning me.  In re Straw, 68 N.E.3d 1070 (Ind. 2017).

This Indiana suspension should not be possible since the ADA specifically does not allow retaliation for any ADA lawsuit or use of that law.  42 U.S.C. § 12203.  Another state exonerated me and said my actions were not unethical at all.

For conservative Republicans, the law is what they (and only  they) say it is and they work very hard to obtain control so they can act like conservative monarchs.  State and federal conservative judges act the same way and they collude together.

I am fighting hard to get compensation for my law licenses as a property matter under the Indiana Bill of Rights, Section 21, but the trial judge said taking my law license was a royal prerogative of the Indiana Supreme Court, my former employer where a reckless driver broke both my legs and my skull on the way there to work.  Straw v. Indiana, 22A-PL-00766 (Ind. Ct. App.).  I sacrificed my mobility for them, and they have the nerve to retaliate against my ADA complaints about them.

Under Rule of Law, however, if a precedent has been law for 50 years, it is presumably frivolous to argue that it is not the law.  In fact, it seems contumacious to say well-settled law is not law.  And once you are labeled as having filed a frivolous lawsuit, you are lumped together with the insane and the criminal.  Your law career is over.

Overturning Roe v. Wade is not the same as overturning Plessy v. Ferguson with Brown v. Board of Education.  Overturning Plessy was the right thing to do for black Americans, especially after over half a million Americans died for the end of slavery.  There was no Civil War to free the fetuses.  There was no “Eleven Years a Fetus.”

Unless, of course, you are a conservative.  Then, you can challenge any precedent that any liberal court has decided.  This is hypocritical hogwash, but that is how conservatives work.  For them, rule of law comes second and only limits liberals, and conservative political beliefs being forced on everyone else is primary.  Thus, we have Roe v. Wade, settled law for 49 years, about to be removed.  In any sensible legal system, the lawyers arguing that Roe should be overturned would be laughed out of court and the lawyers even punished because this is so settled and has been reaffirmed many times at the district, circuit, and national level over nearly 50 years.

Conservatives use appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court as a form of election, and if it happens long enough such that 5 gain control, any precedent that does not smell conservative enough is at risk of the chopping block.  Congress should impeach judges who act like that because it is not good behavior, and they were asked not to act that way when they were confirmed.  Even if they are impeached, Republicans in the Senate will block removing them.  It is a rigged game.

Conservatives cannot stand the idea that someone else would be allowed to make the laws, and that is why Trump went out of his mind after the 2020 election, lying to himself and everyone else that he did not lose when he did.  He lost the 2016 and the 2020 elections as a matter of popular vote, but he got to choose 3 Supreme Court justices in 4 years, while Obama only got to choose 2 in 8 years.

I challenge the frivolous law since it is a weapon of abuse used by conservative and liberal judges alike.  I challenge the certiorari system, used to shut down the U.S. Supreme Court to 99% of the petitioners.  Straw v. Judges Act of 1925, 1:22-cv-00463 (D.DC 2022); Straw v. Frivolous, 1:22-cv-00868 (D.DC 2022).

These are not just legal system errors, but political problems and my Disability Party has an aggressive agenda to tame these abusive judges and courts.  They have proven that they are simply politicians with black robes on, and the conservative ones will even lie to Congress about Roe v. Wade being settled law.  If politics infects the courts, the courts need more democratic accountability immediately.  The more the better; it’s about time.

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About Andrew Straw

Andrew Straw is a person with disabilities who practiced disability law and engages in disability reform advocacy.    Straw was a Virginia lawyer and has served as corporate counsel for billionaire Alan M. Voorhees, who designed the Interstate Highway System and the Metro in Washington DC.  Straw then worked for the Chief Justice of Indiana and was the assistant dean in charge of the International Programs at Indiana University-Maurer School of Law.

He grew up in Indiana, where his brother, a retired USAF captain and twice a critical care trauma nurse veteran of Afghanistan, ran as a Democratic candidate for sheriff of Hamilton County in 2018.  Jason Straw is head of Indiana NORML and seeks reforms of the state’s marijuana laws like most other states have.  Jason is known as “Captain Cannabis.”

Andrew Straw was born at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, where his father was training as a U.S. Marine for his Vietnam duty.  Straw was thus poisoned on the first days of his life but was denied compensation and health care.  Straw v. Wilkie, 843 F. App’x 263 (Fed. Cir. 1/15/2021); Straw v. United States, 4 F.4th 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2021).  Straw started a group for people born or poisoned there called Children of Camp LeJeune.  Congress voted to compensate people like Straw and his dead mother from the poisoning (S. 3373, Title VIII, Sec. 804).  This new law has passed the U.S. House by 342-88 and the U.S. Senate by 86-11.  It will likely be signed by President Biden in early August now that it has passed both houses.

Straw has visited 16 countries and has lived in the United States, Italy, New Zealand, Turkey, and the Philippines.  Straw provided services to the Italian Foreign Ministry as a contractor and passed the written U.S. Foreign Service Officer Test in 1998.  For more information, Straw’s CV can be found here.  Straw has lived in the Philippines for over 4 years, from June 2018 – August 2022, studying disability access in that country, but may one day return to the United States when the human rights violations stop.

He is an asylum seeker due to the discrimination and human rights violations of state and federal courts in the USA.  Andrew Straw lives just 1374 km from where his father was stationed in Vietnam. See also. Straw is engaging in pro se law reform from a distance.

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  1. Jack Jones says

    May 11, 2022 at 7:32 pm

    I’m sorry for what you have gone through. I enjoyed what you had to say about the one way conservatives. I’ve had it with them! Well written and groomed article. It read really well. It’s almost depressing to hear about the conservative antics of the right, but a lot of the problem with America is we as a people are misinformed and really don’t know what’s going on. So thanx for your contribution, for helping us come to reality and truth. It’s what we as a nation really need!

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  2. Andrew Straw says

    May 24, 2022 at 10:55 pm

    My cases seem to be percolating up to the D.C. Circuit. If you want to follow along:

    http://2022.andrewstraw.com

    Andrew Straw

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