Source: ACSOL
The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) to challenge the federal SORNA regulations that became effective in January 2022. As a signatory to the MOU, ACSOL has agreed to serve as a named plaintiff in the lawsuit which will be filed in the Central district of California, a federal trial court. The remaining plaintiff is a registrant who resides in California and will be known as “John Doe.”
The lawsuit will include a request for preliminary injunction which, if granted by the court, would stop enforcement of the SORNA regulations. The lawsuit will also request a final judgment declaring the SORNA regulations to be invalid. PLF will lead the litigation and will pay all legal fees as well as all related expenses.
PLF is a nonprofit, public interest law foundation established to advance the principles of limited government and individual rights. The organization has won 14 of the 16 cases filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on a variety of topics. PLF has more than 80 attorneys and support staff nationwide. In the year 2020, PLF managed 117 active cases.
“ACSOL is pleased to partner with PLF in challenging the federal SORNA regulations that took effect earlier this year,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.
According to the MOU, the anticipated lawsuit will argue that the SORNA regulations are an exercise of an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority, conflicts with relevant statutes and violates both the First Amendment as well as the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause. It is anticipated that the lawsuit will be filed in May 2022.
⭐⭐ This is GREAT news!! ⭐⭐
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I would love to see the end of SORNA and it’s insanely unjust retroactive application to all! 🎉🎊
(And AG Merritt Garland: SORNA is wrong. You know it’s wrong, but you went ahead and approved it. Shame on you. May a proper SCOTUS decision shed light on your error. 😡)
This is good!! Thank you ACSOL!
Thanks also to the PLF!
We in California are so blessed to have Janice and ACSOL.
Thank you for your hard work! Will the lawsuit only pertain to CA or the US as a whole?
I’m hoping this will be inclusive. If you’re off the list in your state you’re are off the federal list as well.
Seems ACSOL is doing something right. While the sex registry is an experience or giving one an opportunity that many should not tread on does one thank the internet for that, or does one thank their evil heart, or who steps on unturned stones to churn up trouble. Are we not all born into trouble. Sure many want to justify their actions but in the long run one will never be free with bias actions.
Challenges are good if the principal is their. With no basic foundation one has no principals and are a law to themself. That is why SORNA can be challenged with its vagueness. Sure correcting is good but with the right measures one can still get justice and it all starts by stepping up to the plate and fearing no evil. Doing justice and righteousness go hand in hand.
Please forgive my ignorance, but exactly what kind of changes would take place if SORNA were ended? How would this change the way that the registry works and what registrants are required to do?
Would this only be for Cali or other states as well?
This is Great News!!!
Just curious, why file in CA where SORNA is not being enforced? Can anyone explain this? But great news regardless! Go fight!!
Jax
How interesting, PLF leans conservative.
This is good news nonetheless. LOL
This is excellent news! The only downside of getting off the California Registry is that a full implementation of SORNA could put you right back on the registry, and with worse restrictions.
Hoping the PLF will be able to stand strong against the inevitable backlash.
Thanks Janice.
A little hope for us.
To all confused about what is a Prior Restraint:
A prior restraint on speech occurs-(you have many first amendment rights as a human being to marry , procreate,
or even as photojournalist to document your travel experiences
{especially if this is your job description}
or to associate with your family members or even peacefully assemble)- and in order to speak or express yourself in person, you must ask permission to travel before you can speak on your travel experience
or peacefully assembling with your children or family.
Definition:
Prior Restraint
Definition
In First Amendment law, prior restraint is government action that prohibits speech or other expression before the speech happens. .
Sexual Intimacy, Right to Bear Children and Direct their upbringing:
2) The Eisenstadt right to procreate with or marry someone in general (from another Country) has been abrogated as well under AWA.
Sexual Intercourse is an action of expression of your love for your girlfriend or wife, of which it is your constitutional right to marry, procreate and then direct the upbringing of your children.
By being denied entry and returned to the USA the government is denying you the right to procreate and direct the upbringing of your children.
They are also treating you like a fugitive slave and slavery was abolished long ago.
Those on here who can’t attend school plays or football games are having their constitutional right to direct the upbringing of their children violated.
If you wanted to raise a football star, they said no. Parental Right violated!
Show pigs at FFA? No, sir you can’t, right violated.
YOU Raising your children in another Country? Can’t come here USA saying you’re a pervert.
Right violated!
o all confused about what is a Prior Restraint:
A prior restraint on speech occurs-(you have many first amendment rights as a human being to marry , procreate, or even as photojournalist to document your travel experiences {especially if this is your job description}
or to associate with your family members or even peacefully assemble)- and in order to speak or express yourself in person, you must ask permission to travel before you can speak on your travel experience or peacefully assembling with your children or family.
Definition:
Prior Restraint Definition In First Amendment law, prior restraint is government action that prohibits speech or other expression before the speech happens. .
Sexual Intimacy, Right to Bear Children and Direct their upbringing:
2) The Eisenstadt right to procreate with or marry someone in general (from another Country) has been abrogated as well under AWA.
Sexual Intercourse is an action of expression of your love for your girlfriend or wife, of which it is your constitutional right to marry, procreate and then direct the upbringing of your children.
By being denied entry and returned to the USA the government is denying you the right to procreate and direct the upbringing of your children. They are also treating you like a fugitive slave and slavery was abolished long ago.
Those on here who can’t attend school plays or football games are having their constitutional right to direct the upbringing of their children violated.
If you wanted to raise a football star, they said no. Parental Right violated!
Show pigs at FFA? No, sir you can’t, right violated.
YOU Raising your children in another Country? Can’t come here USA saying you’re a pervert. Right violated!
I’m very excited & anxiously awaiting news of PLF’s SORNA challenge court filing. 🤗
This is progress, but everyone needs to take a deep breath. Nothing has been decided.
For those who want to read the article on Pacific Legal Foundation’s website, here it is.
For those who want to read the complaint, here it is.
So, I am confused again (what’s new…lol). I thought an expungement under SORNA was recognized, and it relieves the person of the duty to register under Federal Law. Only the State law, I thought, would still make you register despite the expungement?