CONCORD, N.H. - Elaine Brown, who took part in a monthslong armed standoff against U.S. marshals in 2007 to protest a tax evasion conviction, can be released after serving over 12 years in prison, a federal judge ruled Friday. Brown, 78, was re-sentenced in federal court in New Hampshire after a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year affected her case. The couple argued the federal income tax is unconstitutional. Their argument, repeatedly rejected by the courts, was that no law authorized the federal income tax, and that the 1913 constitutional amendment permitting it was never properly ratified. When the home was auctioned off years later, federal agencies couldn’t ensure the entire property was free of booby traps.

Source: thestar January 31, 2020 17:11 UTC