A MORE PERFECT UNION

BREAKING: KING BUILDING EVACUATED! 
Which means this afternoon after lunch there are a bunch of lawyers wanting to work for Greenberg milling around outside the federal detention center. 
There is no truth to the rumor that the threat against federal employees was called in by someone with a New York accent from this number: 202-456-1414


There can be no more apt illustration of the emotional issues, explosive points of view, political divides than the Civil War and ….LOT 26 at the REGJB. 

The Civil War tested whether "Any Nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure."
The Gettysburg Address, A. Lincoln, 11/19/1863; cited with approval by Hirsch, J, passim. 

Lot 26 tests every day  whether ebony and ivory (law enforcement and the defense bar) can park with perfect harmony. 

Thus, as you have come to expect, this blog addresses head-on the great issues of our time:

JUDGE HIRSCH'S CONSTITUIONAL CALENDAR April 11, 2019:

One of the great constitutional issues questions associated with the Civil War was whether any state was possessed of the lawful authority to secede from the Union.  The verdict of the battlefield was against the doctrine of secession.  But did that verdict also reflect the correct understanding of our Constitution, or was it correct only because, and for so long as, there were more soldiers in blue than in grey?

            In the post-war era, the Supreme Court was well aware of the need for a clear and jurisprudentially-persuasive resolution of the question:

We are very sensible of the magnitude and importance of this question, of the interest it excites, and of the difficulty, not to say impossibility, of so disposing of it as to satisfy the conflicting judgments of men equally enlightened, equally upright, and equally patriotic. But we meet it in the case, and we must determine it in the exercise of our best judgment, under the guidance of the Constitution alone.

The opportunity to provide the resolution to that question came in Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700, decided April 12, 1969, from which the foregoing quotation is taken.  Chief Justice Chase, in his opinion for the Court, explained:

The Union of the States never was a purely artificial and arbitrary relation. It began among the Colonies, and grew out of common origin, mutual sympathies, kindred principles, similar interests, and geographical relations. It was confirmed and strengthened by the necessities of war, and received definite form, and character, and sanction from the Articles of Confederation. By these the Union was solemnly declared to "be perpetual." And when these Articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country, the Constitution was ordained "to form a more perfect Union." It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

            That being the case, secession was a constitutional impossibility.  “The Constitution,” the Chief Justice explained, in the turn of phrase for which he is best remembered, “looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.”

NEW PROCEDURES LOT 26

Good afternoon Lot 26 patrons,

This is to inform you effective Wednesday April 17, 2019, MPA will go live with the newly installed equipment. You will be required to use the access cards, sent a couple of weeks ago.

These cards work on in and out loops, therefore in order to exit you must swipe an entry otherwise the card is taken out of synchronization and will require for you to contact our

Customer Service Department, which is open Monday – Friday 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM, for us to refresh your card.

We appreciate all the positive feedback we’ve received regarding the updates and look forward to continue provide you excellent service.

Thank you for your patronage.  

"But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who have parked here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.”

Rumpole's Historic Lot 26 Address. 

COMMING SOON: 

The lot 26 admission scandal. Paying for admission to a parking lot that has a lower admission rate than Harvard, Stanford, and the lot at Fifth and 56th in Manhattan. An expose' of Power, Privilege and how the 1% feel entitled to all the parking benefits of our great nation.