A tree fell in the forest, and no-one heard it
The Supreme Court denies petition for writ of certiorari challenging orders to be injected with an experimental drug--the COVID-19 vaccines.
It was the calm before the storm. I spent two days at the idilic Paradise Lodge on the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon during the week of October 7. Paradise Lodge is unique because it is 52 miles up the Rogue River from Gold Beach, Oregon, and you cannot reach it by road. You must get there by boat—a jet boat up the river or a raft down the river—or by hiking. The owner John Schleining invited me and a group of other interesting people to stay at his lodge to meet and get to know each other. As soon as I set foot on the property I felt a sense of deep relaxation. I always carry my camera outdoor trips and this was no exception. My captures are posted at https://stephenjoncus.smugmug.com/Landscape-and-Wildlife/2024-10-08-Paradise-Lodge.
While in relaxing in Paradise, I was still anticipating the Supreme Court’s decision on my petition for writ of certiorari in Johnson v. Kotek, No. 24-173, my case challenging Oregon’s orders that entire segments of our population get injected with an experimental drug—the COVID vaccines. On Tuesday, a week ago, the Supreme Court denied my petition for writ of certiorari. No reason for the denial was given, and one never has insight as to the reason unless one of the justices writes a dissenting opinion from the denial of a petition. No such luck here.
On one hand, the odds of getting a petition granted are stark; the order that came out last Tuesday was 11 pages long, denying relief in a long list of cases (178 of them), except for 4 in which they issued summary dispositions based on recent Supreme Court decisions. Last week’s order did not grant a single petition for writ of certiorari that will proceed to oral argument. The Court receives on the order of 8000 petitions a year and they have to be brutal in denying petitions because they can only hear about 80 or 1%.
On the other hand, one would think that they could have found room to consider the greatest crime against humanity in history.
Everyone asks why they denied it. While the answer is unknowable, these are my thoughts of the possibilities:
(1) the case is too big; the implications are too vast; they do not want to touch it, similar to their resistance to taking election cases.
(2) The justices are people too, subject to the same psychological war perpetrated by our government on the public, blinding them to the reality. Ways of articulating it:
they don’t believe that the COVID-19 vaccines were that bad. I think that this is a common opinion among the brainwashed elite. The three-judge 9th Circuit panel who ruled against me scoffed at my assertions of how dangerous the vaccines were. The same 9th Circuit panel in a different case (that I argued the same day) also scoffed at my argument that face masks had no benefit and were harmful to humans. I got what I thought was a really good Ninth Circuit panel because two of the three judges were appointed by Trump. Yet, I still could not get traction.
They are under the influence of the Big Lie and cannot believe that our government could be so evil.
As Toby Rogers opines, Chris Bray wrote a perfect paragraph describing our predicament:
“My argument is not ‘the news media lies,’ or ‘there’s a lot of misleading discourse.’ My argument is that whole overlapping layers of high-status America — in academia, in media, and in politics — are psychotic, fully detached from reality and living in their own bizarre mental construction of a fake world. I don’t mean this figuratively, or as colorful hyperbole. I mean that the top layers of our most important institutions are actually, literally populated by people who are insane, who have cultivated a complete mental descent into a fake world.”
(3) Federal judges cannot fairly judge themselves because the federal courts are complicit. At least the district courts and circuit courts of appeal ordered their employees to get vaccinated or lose their jobs. I do not know whether the Supreme Court ordered its employees to vaccinate or not. (Although, I seem to recall that the Supreme Court justices showed some independence from the group-think because they did not ever wear masks.) So where then are my clients to go to get a fair hearing if the entire judicial system is complicit in the crime that I am targeting? The best chance now, it seems, is for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to get in a position of power in a Trump administration to wreak havoc on the health agencies.
(4) Although shielded from politics, I do not believe that the Supreme Court is immune from political pressure and the regime that imposed these mandates on us are very powerful. One colleague told me his theory that my case was buried by a clerk under the influence of the deep state. There is no way that each justice can read 200 petitions each week; they must get summaries from their clerks and those summaries can be easily written to skew towards rejection of a petition.
(5) The case was not well presented; e.g., I didn’t do a good job or they didn’t like my legal theory.
I can file a petition for rehearing. The deadline is November 9, 2024.
Maybe RFK Jr., as part of Trump’s team, will change the politics of health in America. This is the genocide of all times.
I hope you do file. Many other potential cases have evaporated into dust along the way, including mine.