SCOCA Slams Santa Clara County's Persecution of Calvary Chapel

The County's petition to overturn a constitutional ruling was not even considered by California's Supreme Court.

On November 30, 2022, the Supreme Court of California rejected the petition fashioned by Santa Clara County, which sought to protect the egregious constitutional violations committed by County CEO Jeffrey V. Smith, County Counsel James Robyzad Williams, and Health Officer Sara Helen Cody. In its petition, the County launched a last-ditch effort to convince the California Supreme Court to reverse the 6th District Court of Appeals’ ruling which rightly voided the County’s temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, and $217,500 in contempt of court fines unlawfully imposed upon the leadership of Calvary Chapel San Jose.

In the District Court’s decision of August 15, 2022, the honorable U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman cited multiple SCOTUS decisions and made the facts clear that,

"The U.S. Supreme Court has clarified the law over the past two years and I intend to abide by the law as described….As the underlying orders which Calvary Chapel violated are void and unenforceable, we will annul the orders of contempt in their entirety and reverse the orders to pay monetary sanctions."

Judge Freeman then went on to rebuke the aforementioned County despots and their Constitution-defiant representatives Grace H. Kouba, Meredith A. Johnson, David Angel, and Melissa Kiniyalocts, stating:

“This litigation has mushroomed out of control. This is not the hill you want to die on…”

Supreme Court of California’s decision to rebuff the County’s petition without even reviewing it was a further castigation of the corporate municipality’s run amok figureheads, who issued 50 times more fines and brought more lawsuits against businesses and residents than any other County in California, even fining businesses during Thanksgiving weekend for not posting the ever-changing, scientifically unsupported masking, distancing and other nonsensical guidelines issued by Sara Cody. In collusion with Williams, Cody endeavored to promulgate the unsigned, unsealed Executive Orders that Gavin Newsom began issuing in 2020 by intimidating and coercing businesses, associations and churches to act on her behalf as unlicensed medical practitioners and unsworn law enforcers, acts which are punishable under California Penal Code sections 2052(a) and 548(d), which state, respectively:

“Notwithstanding Section 146, any person who practices or attempts to practice, or who advertises or holds himself or herself out as practicing, any system or mode of treating the sick or afflicted in this state, or who diagnoses, treats, operates for, or prescribes for any ailment, blemish, deformity, disease, disfigurement, disorder, injury, or other physical or mental condition of any person, without having at the time of so doing a valid, unrevoked, or unsuspended certificate as provided in this chapter or without being authorized to perform the act pursuant to a certificate obtained in accordance with some other provision of law is guilty of a public offense, punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and either imprisonment.”

and

“(b) (1) Any person, other than the one who by law is given the authority of a peace officer, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the badge of a peace officer with the intent of fraudulently impersonating a peace officer, or of fraudulently inducing the belief that he or she is a peace officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, by a fine not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.”

Sara Cody, who enjoys a plush, unmasked lifestyle at 345 Kellog Avenue in Palo Alto, CA, revealed under oath during depositions in 2022 that her guidelines- which she called mandates during 2020, 2021 and 2022- lacked scientific support, yet she imposed them not only upon healthy individuals, but upon handicapped individuals as well by preventing access to public buildings and services in violation of, among other statutes, the Americans with Disabilities Act:

“Subject to the provisions of this subchapter, no qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of a public entity, or be subjected to discrimination by any such entity.”

- 42 U.S.C. §12131. Descrimination

Yet her unlawful prohibitions didn’t stop there. She relentlessly harassed churches and associations, many of which bowed to her intimidations for lack of a basic understanding of the Constitution. Lacking a law degree, she relied upon Williams to enforce her edicts upon those whose rights to gather and worship are clearly protected by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

James Robyzad Williams, who resides with his wife, two sons and two daughters at 1597 Curtner Avenue in San Jose, is a Soros Fellow¹ who was secretly appointed CEO of Santa Clara County by its Board of Supervisors on October 17th, 2022 while he was obdurately flouting the rulings of the District Court and SCOTUS.

When considering the legal defeat, he was able to find some solace in the clause of Wednesday’s ruling which, with questionable legal merit, decertified the August appellate ruling. That maneuver effectively clears the 6th District’s precedent from the records, preventing future legal challengers from using it. The impenitent Williams inferred that he will continue to try to collect the $2.87 million in fines he has imposed upon Calvary Chapel when he stated,

“I’m certainly disappointed they didn’t review the petition. But in ordering the decision to be de-published, it can no longer be cited. It will no longer affect rule of law. I think the California Supreme Court sent that message.”

Let us hope and pray that Williams, his representatives, and other public attorneys like him across America not only repent and beg the People for forgiveness and mercy as they are removed from office, but that they will also undertake a little bit of the legal study that was withheld from them in law school, for the law is clear that right violations are repugnant to American jurisprudence.

“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

- Constitution for the United States of America, Article VI, Section 2 (Supremacy Clause)

“An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.”

- Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, 442 (1886)

“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void”

-Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S., 137,174,176

“The only laws that we have to obey and the only laws for which we can be punished for not obeying are those enacted by the legislature.”

- Judge Andrew Napolitano

“…individual rights secured by the Constitution do not disappear during a public health crisis.”

-In re Abbott, 954 F.3d at 784. (5th Cir. 2020)

“But there is no pandemic exception to the Constitution and its Bill of Rights…. These individual rights, including the protections in the Bill of Rights made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, are always operative and restrain government action.”

- United States Department of Justice, Statement of Interest, May 3, 2020, U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, LIGHTHOUSE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH v. RALPH NORTHAM, in his official capacity as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

1. Paul Soros, the co-founder of the $75 Million Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, was the elder brother of billionaire and self-proclaimed globalist with an openly confessed god complex, George Soros. According to Daisy Soros, there is not much difference between the two brothers.

It is worth noting that “Soros” is not the genetically traceable family name of these men. According to the New York Times and The Guardian, it one of several of the alias Christian identities adopted by the “Soros” family in Hungary to evade Jewish persecution. This fact raises questions about James Robyzad Williams’ true identity, for he is a first generation immigrant, born to an Iranian mother and East Indian father who came to America from India. His allegiance to the Soros agenda was purchased by a large and persuasive PDSFNA scholarship to Stanford Law School. According to the PDSFNA Web site, “Each Fellows (sic) attends two weekend conferences of Fellows. The great majority continue to be involved with the program through regional dinners, service in the selection process for later classes, and through the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows Association.”