Sunday, December 22, 2024

CONSIDER THE DRAGON

 It's kind of interesting to a man with only a very mild bit of training in the Law and that only really in the arcane realm of what is known as military law but I find this fascinating.

A diagnosis of neurological disease does not, by itself, render a person legally incompetent. However, once the illness has progressed to the point that the person can no longer meet the competence standard, it’s too late to get their affairs in order. Even if an ill person meets the competence standard, records of a dementia diagnosis may later be used to challenge the judgment of the attorney who made the capacity determination and thereby invalidate the documents.
In sum, an attorney can only permit legally competent clients to sign wills and other documents. For clients who lack the capacity, signatures are impermissible, and any resulting documents may later be voided by a court.

You know in the Federal Government, nothing is official until the President signs the document. If unsigned it has no effect. If Vetoed it is returned to sender and requires a 2/3s vote to pass over the objection of the President. 

With that said, just how many of the Bills signed by the current idiot have true legal weight?

8 comments:

tsquared said...

That is a topic that is probably best discussed over a couple adult beverages.

Highlander said...

Zero, not that any of the other dementia patients will care....

boron said...

since his inauguration

Dan said...

In addition to his competence to sign a binding document there is still the issue of the validity of his actually being President. There is no shortage of evidence showing the 2020 election was fraudulent. In a fair and honest world his entire administration and everything it has done would be declared invalid for a multitude of reasons. Sadly we do not live in such a world and absolutely nothing will be done about the train wreck that history will call the "Biden Administration". Nobody in politics and nobody sitting on a judicial bench anywhere has the balls to actually state out loud that his entire tenure was illegitimate. So it will be allowed to stand...as rotten and evil as it has been.

Stefan said...

Would it be ironic if the Democrats admitted 2020 was stolen and the Buyden/Harris-Tuah regime was indeed illegitimate (apart from being incapable by reason of decompos-mentis and pickled-mentis not-native-born), and that the 2024 Trump election was therefore illegitimate because Trump should have served 2020-2024?

HMS Defiant said...

True, but it calls to mind speaking to a man many years ago about topics we found interesting and worth discussing and having this unmitigated stupid teenage girl behind us rolling her eyes and shouting shshshshshhhhhhh at 90db. We invited her to take her problems controlling herself out to the street with the rest of the druggy homeless types.

HMS Defiant said...

Asked earlier today if Republicans can use the 25th amendment and the answer is found in section IV. Sadly, there is little that can be done with both the vice president and the principles of the Executive Branch just turning a blind eye to the insanity in the White House. It will be interesting to see how Lawyer schools discuss this. Hopefully it will come up again and again.

HMS Defiant said...

and they're just the lowlifes to try something like that and find traction in a DC or NY courthouse.