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In Re Ryan D. Mumme
IFP petition
Questions presented
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Whether the applicant has a right to the relief he demands;
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If he has a right, and that right has been violated, whether the laws of his country afford him a remedy; and
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If they do afford him a remedy, whether it is a mandamus issuing from this Court (questions 1-3 being adapted from Chief Justice Marshall’s Marbury).
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Whether our Constitution’s Article 111, at its Sections 1 and 2 - when read together, constitutes potential for direct, judicial, financial conflicts of interest; wherever and whenever, the United States - as sole, Section 1 Compensator, appears in Section 2, Federal controversies - as here in Petitioner’s lower court case, as a named party - facially, thereby, stripping that Federal Court of its Article 111 jurisdiction; ensuring a self-defeating outcome for the USA in consequence; should it so choose to both appear and proceed in any Federal, Section 2 controversy .
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Whether our Constitution, now at its Articles I and II, in addition, shows the United States also solely and directly compensating all Legislative and Executive Branch employees as well; doing so there, however, apart from any apparent, constitutional impediment.
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Whether any provision of our Constitution expressly grants the sovereign United States, or any branch of our subordinate, federal government, immunity from suit.
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Whether an individual waiver of sovereign immunity can be implied, or must, instead, be unequivocally expressed; solely by the sovereign United States themselves, by Article V convention.
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Whether the Congress - as subordinate, has the constitutional power to freely act, at any time, on the sovereign’s behalf, to simply waive the sovereign’s immunity - in cases and legislation Congress wishes to engage in, and do so apart from the expressed permission of the sovereign, as is, for instance, garnered solely, it appears, by Article V Convention, and that apart from that same,
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Ryan D. Mumme
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Feb 23 2026Petition DENIED.
- Feb 05 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
- Nov 12 2025Petition for a writ of mandamus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 22, 2026)