Absolutely, it's a submission to state a position and in theory anyone can submit whatever position they wish for consideration.
The better question is whether it is wise, and in this particular cae I suspect it may well play to their favour - it's a rare latin nerd that fails to chuckle at a bad latin quip or three.
After all, it's not like they led with Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō from Catullus 16.
Someone somewhere in the justice department must have thought parody was not legal, otherwise, this lawsuit would have been quashed and this specific amicus brief would not be necessary. So if this specific brief was presented to those other courts that allowed this to continue, the reception might be different enough to make one thing this might just not be legal.
> 1. Whether an officer is entitled to qualified immunity for arresting an individual based solely on speech parodying the government, so long as no case
has previously held the particular speech is protected.
> 2. Whether the Court should reconsider the doctrine of qualified immunity.
So, yay, it's basically a qualified immunity case, where the infringement in question is an unhappy local government office patently violating someone's First Amendment rights. (Sadly, not the first or last time this is going to happen.)
It is beautifully written. The capacity of the authors to effectively use parody within the brief to defend parody while keeping the serious parts of the brief serious shows the quality of the Onions.
With the normalization of crazy in the U.S. it is getting more difficult to discern parody from things that people actually say or do. Poe's Law and reddit /r/atetheonion are things for a reason.
I feel this is a direct result of safe zones and everything "woke". People have lost the ability evidently to handle criticism, other people's ideas, and even egalitarianism. You have a new take on what is society? Quit looking for a safe zone and stuff it down people's throats and tell them to fucking deal with it, but don't demand others give you a safe zone (barring violence, which is never okay, and you should go to jail for that). I guess I just came out of the punk/gen-x generation, but holy shit are people too sensitive.
i heard recently that one country attacked another one out of fear that the latter would adhere to an alliance defending it from being attacked by the former
your statement has way too many relative references, you speak of the latter, and the former, and the alliances between the opposition of the former against the alleged plans of the latter in a scenario where one invades a soon to be allied 3rd party
my point being is that in trying to sound serious and formal you've imposed on your reader an extra layer of unacking your point which you also had to needlessly pack so you'd sound like I already said (see: I did it again, put in a reference instead of repeating cuz it makes me sound more serious and 'deep')
>The Onion’s journalists have garnered a sterling reputation for accurately forecasting future events. One
such coup was The Onion’s scoop revealing that a former president kept nuclear secrets strewn around his
beach home’s basement three years before it even happened.2
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The better question is whether it is wise, and in this particular cae I suspect it may well play to their favour - it's a rare latin nerd that fails to chuckle at a bad latin quip or three.
After all, it's not like they led with Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō from Catullus 16.
But not in the US.
[I believe the GP is from outside the US]
What gave you the truly outrageous idea that justice department has the capability to "quash" lawsuits such that they can't be appealed?
If you actually read the questions presented in the petition for writ of certiorari (https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/238740/2022...), it's more anodyne:
> The questions presented are:
> 1. Whether an officer is entitled to qualified immunity for arresting an individual based solely on speech parodying the government, so long as no case has previously held the particular speech is protected.
> 2. Whether the Court should reconsider the doctrine of qualified immunity.
So, yay, it's basically a qualified immunity case, where the infringement in question is an unhappy local government office patently violating someone's First Amendment rights. (Sadly, not the first or last time this is going to happen.)
[1] https://www.loweringthebar.net/2012/09/all-briefs-should-now...
my point being is that in trying to sound serious and formal you've imposed on your reader an extra layer of unacking your point which you also had to needlessly pack so you'd sound like I already said (see: I did it again, put in a reference instead of repeating cuz it makes me sound more serious and 'deep')
Can we get that in the next edition of the standard?
This is amazing writing :-D