Republican leaders have also been chipping away at the Constitution by proposing to deny judges jurisdiction to review selected acts of Congress.

They were accused of heresies including doubting the need for the sacraments, denying ordinary ecclesiastical jurisdiction and claiming to work miracles.

The plaintiff then filed an action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which denied jurisdiction based on Rookers prohibition against federal courts hearing appeals of state court judgments.

Equally, the consequences of applying it to any old scrap of paper which any party cared to describe as an 'Act of Parliament' solely for purpose of denying jurisdiction would be absurd.

As of 1978, under the Supreme Court case Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, tribal courts are denied inherent jurisdiction to criminally prosecute non-natives.

The U.S. Department of Justice also failed to obtain answers from the two organisations, which appeared to have denied jurisdiction.

Justice Breyer on whether to deny jurisdiction to citizens outside the U.S.

The bill by Senator Maltese, who is a former prosecutor, would deny jurisdiction based solely on those kinds of communications, without some element of the crime actually taking place in the prosecutor's county.

The Supreme Court of Serbia denied jurisdiction in this case.

According to Professor Bethany Berger, "By patching together bits and pieces of history and isolated quotes from nineteenth century cases, and relegating contrary evidence to footnotes or ignoring it altogether, the majority created a legal basis for denying jurisdiction out of whole cloth."