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Trucilla granted the motion, according to the Superior Court, "due to the unique facts surrounding this case," including Lampley claiming he was a sovereign citizen and his decision to represent ...
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.
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]
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 redemption movement overlaps with the sovereign citizen movement, with several influential sovereign citizens promoting redemption schemes and ideas. [8] Part of its concepts were also adopted by the Canadian-born freeman on the land movement and by various other pseudolaw "gurus", movements and litigants. [9]
Jun. 14—Police stopped to help stranded motorists and came face-to-face with a family of Moorish Sovereign Citizens, some of whom fought with officers, according to a probable cause affidavit.
According to The Washington Post, the group is part of the Moorish sovereign-citizen movement, who claim immunity from local, state and federal laws. [13] Similarly, the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Rise of the Moors as an "anti-government group" [ 10 ] and identifies the Moorish sovereign-citizen movement with the broader ...
A run-of-the-mill traffic stop quickly escalated when a Florida driver claiming to be a sovereign citizen was pulled over.. Volusia Deputies pulled over a blue Ford truck on 11 November after ...