Statutory Interpretation-Justice Scalia – Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM)

This excellent video summarizes and explains some of the more popular canons of statutory interpretation and how they are abused to allow judges to unconstitutionally “make law”. The speakers are U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (now deceased) and Bryan Garner, who is the author of Black’s Law Dictionary.

We also talk about statutory interpretation and how judges and government attorneys twist language to unconstitutionally make law, deceive, and gain undue jurisdiction in:

Legal Deception, Propaganda, and Fraud, Form #05.014
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/LegalDecPropFraud.pdf

The techniques that judges use to unlawfully make law are described in the following. The abuse of the rules of statutory construction described in this video is only one of MANY such techniques:

How Judges Unconstitutionally “Make Law”, Litigation Tool #01.009
https://sedm.org/Litigation/01-General/HowJudgesMakeLaw.pdf

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia also authored a book together with Bryan A Garner:

Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, Antonin Scalia
https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Law-Interpretation-Legal-Texts/dp/031427555X/

You can also hear Scalia talk about the above book in:

Interview with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia about his book Reading Law. Describes how judges become corrupted, SEDM Exhibit 11.006
http://youtu.be/EZetu4AM2HE

Garner and Scalia also wrote an academic paper that you can download on the subject at:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2132581

Below is our favorite video explaining how abuse of language by lawyers can cause crime:

Word Crimes, Weird Al Yankovic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

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