SCOTUS Hears Case Challenging Legality of SEC Judges – IOTW Report

SCOTUS Hears Case Challenging Legality of SEC Judges

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Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments for Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, which challenges the authority of the administrative state. The defendant is George Jarkesy, a conservative radio host who was fined over half-a-million dollars by the SEC for allegedly defrauding investors and appealed this sentence by arguing that the SEC does not have the constitutional authority to do this.

His legal team makes three arguments: (1) The SEC is violating the Seventh Amendment, which guarantees a trial by jury; (2) the SEC doesn’t have the authority to adjudicate these matters since it’s an executive agency, not a federal court; and (3) the SEC judges are unfairly protected from serious political and legal accountability. All these arguments add up to condemn the administrative state as a whole, which Jarkesy’s team claims “is effectively rigged against virtually every defendant that goes before an ALJ [administrative law judge].” More

Details on the Jarkesy Case Here

12 Comments on SCOTUS Hears Case Challenging Legality of SEC Judges

  1. Wish him all luck with this, but am not hopeful that the government will wake up one morning and think, “huh, weve overstepped our constitution, we better fix that today.”

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  2. It is time ti end the ww administrative state. All of these extra-Constitutional organizations need to expire….. with prejudice!
    FJB

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  3. “Does the SEC have the constitutional authority to regulate and target small business owners, up to the tune of a half-a-million-dollar fine?”

    No they don’t. Why? Because they’re an illegitimate branch of the Government with no Constitutional validity or authority. They literally collect money at the point of a gun.

    BENITO, try starting at the nip and working your way down.

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  4. Even Steven, come on man tell us more. Oh & whats your real name, just ask’n for a friend. Brad, go ahead & try to fight the SEC. Even large communication corporations buckle & end up paying. Your not even a gnat large enough to be swatted at.

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