Capacity-to-Sue

Movement claim: State, county, and municipal governments are private corporations whose capacity to sue must be challenged under Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(a); absent a contract giving them jurisdiction, criminal proceedings against the natural person must be abated — foreclosed

The affidavit that says states aren't real, that ALL-CAPS proves it, and that FRCP 9(a) requires the government to prove its own existence is among the most heavily sanctioned filings in the movement repertoire. Three category collapses, each load-bearing in American law: body politic versus private corporation; civil versus criminal procedure; contract jurisdiction versus police power. None of them survives engagement.