Jan. Sixers Are Using Sovereign Citizen Defenses to Try and Get Out of Prison

Dec 26 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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On October 28, long after pleading guilty to brawling with police inside the U.S. Capitol, James Mault and Greg Rubenacker filed near-identical documents from inside Pennsylvania’s Allenwood Low correctional facility.

“The United States District Court is a private for profit corporation. (It is not government owned),” read Rubenacker’s handwritten filing. “This court was created in 1871, along with the new form...

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