Legal Opinion
Cruz v. House of Representatives of the United Statesa
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 20, 2018No. Civil Action No. 17–cv–0307 (KBJ)PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, United States District Judge
Pro se Plaintiff Alex Cruz is a federal prisoner who is asking this Court to declare that the federal criminal code is "null and void" pursuant to the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201. (Compl., ECF No. 1, at 19 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).)1 Cruz's argument is predicated on the contention that Congress did not enact H.R. 3190 properly; that legislation, which became "Public Law 80-772[,]" codified existing federal criminal laws into Title 18 of the United States Code. (Id. at 2.) Like the many other federal…
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