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In Re Aaron Eriksson

Paid petition


Certiorari denied · October 5, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the federal government’s direct ad­ ministration of the income tax against natural per­ sons violates the Bill of Rights and the structural fed­ eralism of the Constitution by subjecting individuals to federal power that was never delegated to it and by displacing the sovereign States as constitutional in­ termediaries.

  2. Whether the Sixteenth Amendment has turned the Bill of Rights into a mere parchment barrier by rendering its protections optional in the realm of tax­ ation through a self-reinforcing regime of direct fed­ eral control over natural persons that is accelerating the erosion of constitutional limitations.

  3. Whether this Court should issue a writ of man­ damus compelling the Commissioner of Internal Rev­ enue to cease exercising direct administrative author­ ity over natural persons, where the violation is sys­ temic, entrenched, and cannot be adequately reme­ died through ordinary judicial processes.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Aaron Eriksson

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Subject area
Federal Taxation (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Mandamus denied

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 29 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  3. Jul 24 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Jul 04 2026
    Petition for a writ of mandamus filed. (Response due August 10, 2026)