Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution

I mean, plaintiffs in their brief actually quote Justice Thomas for that standard in Luis and then sort of immediately retreat from it.

That's true in, say, the Sixth Amendment context.

You have the right to a competent attorney, but not Clarence Darrow, this court has said.

The Fifth Amendment requires that you be competent, but it doesn't require that you understand everything that's in powers.

First Amendment and you get to have an opinion on anything you want.

Then there's also a trial by jury, which I believe is Sixth Amendment.

That wasn't given to Alex Jones or to Judy Mikovits or to President Trump.

And then there's this thing called the Eighth Amendment, which has no excessive fines.

At the time, the state let each of its 44 counties run their own public defense systems.

The ACLU of Idaho, which brought the lawsuit, said public defenders were managing too many cases and couldn't properly represent all of their clients as required by the Sixth Amendment.

An Ada County judge in February 2024 dismissed the lawsuit because the state legislature created a new state-based public defense system that would take over cases later that year.

The opinion said the new system rendered the lawsuit moot, but that another case could be brought if the office also failed to meet its constitutional obligations.

And when she did, though, it did seem like a weighty amount of evidence that the defense is under and now they have to climb out of that when they present their case

absolutely you know and I think maybe the defense was thinking him you know judge Casper thank you we get it no more please but I will tell you there was also a really interesting argument they made you may recall about the Sixth Amendment confrontation clause so a defendant has the right to confront their accusers now of course statements that Sandra might have made to other people about the defendant, they would argue, you know, they don't—the defense does not want to come in.

And what the prosecution is saying, well, you forfeited the right to argue that by your wrongdoing, right? You can't kill a witness and then say, no one's allowed to testify about what she said.

So there's going to be an argument about that.

Second of all, I don't know what Trump's done to clean it up, but it's a dirty, filthy, crime-ridden city.

And, you know, if you want to revisit January 6th and talk about free speech, I mean, I have never seen such repeated violations of constitutional rights, civil rights in my life as happened to those January 6th defendants, repeated violations of the First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, Eighth Amendment.

Over and over and over by the Democrats in Washington, D.C. Didn't

they have defense attorneys? Didn't they have defense attorneys? Yes, they did.

damn guilty.

Let me answer your question.

That was the Sixth Amendment violation, Mr. York.

You have a right to competent counsel, and the January 6th defendants did not receive that.

And if a person is on the end, you know that it's a civil penalty, not a criminal penalty to be crosswise with our immigration law.

And then when it's on the criminal side, you follow the Sixth Amendment.

That's how I see it.

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