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Example illustration of a sovereign citizen homemade license plate. The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists found mainly in English-speaking common law countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
He also took legal action in December 2020, attempting to stop local clerks from deleting election records. The chief judge of the federal court in Grand Rapids denied the request. [15] In the run-up to the 2024 election the group has been training armed militias, building ties to Trump supporters and building “posses” to patrol polling ...
The GS is separated into 15 grades (GS-1, GS-2, etc. up to GS-15); each grade is separated into 10 steps. At one time, there were also three GS "supergrades" (GS-16, GS-17 and GS-18); these were eliminated under the provisions of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 and replaced by the Senior Executive Service and the more recent Senior Level ...
The Sovereign Citizen movement is a disparate collection of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of anti-government radicals who believe they're not subject to local or national laws or authority.
The Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990 or FEPCA (H.R. 5241, Pub. L. 101–509) is a United States federal law relating to the salaries for employees of the United States Government. In the 1980s, salaries for civil servants in the executive branch had fallen behind private sector pay. FEPCA was enacted to provide guidelines to ...
A run-of-the-mill traffic stop quickly escalated when a Florida driver claiming to be a sovereign citizen ... on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence, the statement ...
Sovereign citizens often retaliate through acts of "paper terrorism," which involves bombarding the legal system with frivolous lawsuits or falsified documents. Violence is the most extreme form ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Moorish sovereign citizens as an extremist anti-government group. [3] [9] Tactics used by the group include filing false deeds and property claims, [10] false liens against government officials, frivolous legal motions to overwhelm courts, and invented legalese used in court appearances and filings. [2]