Jay W. Barnett, Attorney at Law

07/04/2024

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."

No other government in the history of the world had been founded upon these fundamental commitments, so no other country has ever so altered the arc of human history in favor of liberty and prosperity for all people.

American exceptionalism is real and worth celebrating. Happy Independence Day.

06/28/2024

Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Relentless v. Department of Commerce, and SEC v. Jarkesy -- the sun has set on Chevron deferrence and the unfettered tyranny of the administrative state.

Let Freedom Ring!

03/25/2023

It's with a heavy heart that we have to share with you that Deputy Jeremy McCain has passed after a valiant fight for his life. Jeremy was critically hurt in an accident March 10th. He was a school resource officer and a loving single dad with an amazing sense of humor. He will be greatly missed by his family and by all of us at the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office. Thank you for your continued prayers and kind words.

03/25/2023

It is with immense sadness that the McAlester Police Department announces the tragic loss of Patrolman Joseph Barlow. Barlow was involved in a head on collision on March 17, 2023 while escorting the late Captain Richard Parker from Tulsa to Wetumka. Unfortunately, he has succumbed to his injuries and passed Monday, March 20, 2023 surrounded by many family, friends and local law enforcement officers. Barlow served not only his nation in the United States Army, but his community of McAlester with great pride. We ask that you keep officer Barlow’s friends, family, and community in your thoughts as they grieve this great loss and continue to cope recently tragedies.

03/13/2023

"In other words, what the dean was preaching is the exact opposite of the law of free speech. We protect the speaker from the mob, not the mob from the speaker. And here was a dean of one of the best law schools in the world using the exact opposite of that basic principle to silence a sitting federal judge. I just read back through what I wrote, and I find it hard to believe what I’m describing. And yet it happened."

Jurist silenced by elite Stanford Law mob explains why it matters for democracy

01/14/2022

The Court strikes a blow against rule by fiat via the Administrative State.

“The Court grants the applications to stay the two injunctions barring the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ regulation requiring facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to ensure that their employees are vaccinated against COVID–19. https://t.co/a04CI4Mmn6”

09/13/2021

"My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks," Barrett said, according to USA Today. "Judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties."

"Judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties," Barrett said during a speech Sunday.

04/30/2021

"But words are how the law constrains power. In this case, the law’s terms ensure that, when the federal government seeks a procedural advantage against an individual, it will at least supply him with a single and reasonably comprehensive statement of the nature of the proceedings against him. If men must turn square corners when they deal with the government, it cannot be too much to expect the government to turn square corners when it deals with them."

The decision came down to a one-letter word.

04/30/2021

Here's my sage legal advice: don't do this.

The chief of Emergent BioSolutions made sales of stock options weeks before the company’s share price tumbled.

11/27/2020

“It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues and mosques..." J. Gorsuch, concurring.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett played a decisive role in the decision, which took the opposite approach of earlier court rulings related to coronavirus restrictions in California and Nevada.