Carroll v. Moorehead

ORDER AND JUDGMENT

Scott M. Matheson, Jr. Circuit Judge

Gerald R. Carroll filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2241 application to challenge the legality of his incarceration at the federal prison in Florence, Colorado on the ground that he is a “Moorish American National” and not subject to federal jurisdiction under the “Act of State doctrine” and the “Political Question Doctrine.” ROA at 4. The district court denied his application, stating that “[c]ourts routinely reject as frivolous the argument that an individual, being allegedly Moorish in-ancestry, is somehow, individually sovereign and outside of…