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Tax resister's case likely to get cold shoulder in high court
James Kilpatrick argues that Jenkins v. Commissioner will be dismissed when the Supreme Court reconvenes, despite Jenkins’s claim of Ninth Amendment and RFRA based conscientious objection to paying taxes for war. The piece reviews past rulings upholding tax payments by conscientious objectors and notes the Ninth Amendment as a weak basis for relief.
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Jenkins
Supreme Court
Daniel Taylor Jenkins
Saranac Lake
N.Y
Religious Society of Friends
Mark W. Everson
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Jenkins Case. In His Appeal To the High Court
RFRA
High Court
Ed Lee
Lee
Pennsylvania
Warren Earl Burger
Second Circuit
Jose Cabranes
Daniel Jenkins
Cabranes
New York