The Bullock Law Firm

08/07/2025

ARKANSAS DRIVER ALERT!!!

A new traffic law goes into effect in Arkansas today. Act 327 of 2025, doubles fines for moving traffic violations in mobile work zones. Previously, traffic fines were only doubled in static (or stationary) work zones.

What is a “mobile work zone”? The term includes any area of/within on a roadway in Arkansas where construction, maintenance, or any other type of work is being performed for a limited period of time by employees of ARDOT, cities, counties, or contractors. 'Mobile' work activities include debris removal, road striping, pothole patching, etc.

IMPORTANT NOTE: In order for the 'double fine' law to kick in, the work zones must be marked by a sign, channelizing device, barrier, or work vehicle with lights. WATCH FOR THESE WARNING SIGNS - and please, BE SAFE OUT THERE!

05/20/2025

WHAT IS 'JUSTICE'?

The Roman philosopher Seneca defined justice as 'a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed'. This is a radical paradigm shift from modern concepts, which tend to focus on justice as punishment/retribution for wrongs done or damage caused.

If the goal of justice is LESSENING HARM, surely it must not involve offense, outrage, or vengeance. After all, each of those three named toxic imposters do the opposite of lessoning harm; they actually INCREASE HARM - by glorifying, justifying, perpetuating, and exacerbating harmful behavior in the name of 'justice'.

If the goal of justice is LESSENING HARM, a Divinely inspired and guided blend of wisdom and compassion, gentleness and strength, insight into the causes of evil and understanding of the power of goodness must lie at its root.

05/28/2024

Scam Alert!

People in Bowie County are receiving telephone calls from people claiming [falsely] to be Bowie County deputies. If you have caller ID, the calls may appear to come from a Lake Tawakoni, Texas number, but scammers like this often use 'spoofed' numbers at random. The scam involves an accusation that you either failed to report for grand jury or petit jury duty, or that you owe outstanding fines. The scam artist then tries to get you to pay the fines over the internet, or via bitcoin. For more details, see the link below.

Be on the alert!

the SCAMMER claims to be a Deputy with our Office and demands payment for outstanding fines or for missing jury duty.

10/18/2022

Attention all Arkansas residents [and absentee landowners!]

07/11/2022

Take Note: By order of the Commissioner's Court of Bowie County, Texas, Bowie County is now officially under a 'burn ban'. Unless cancelled early, this ban begins today and will continue for 90 days.

06/28/2022

WHAT DOBBS DOES AND DOES NOT SAY AND DO

There is a lot of inflammatory rhetoric going around about what the United States Supreme Court did or did not do recently in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. In that case the Court was called upon to determine if a statute passed by the Mississippi state legislature outlawing the performing of abortions in Mississippi in cases where the baby in question had been in the womb for 15 weeks or more constituted a violation of the United States Constitution. The Jackson Women's Health Organization (an abortion provider) sued Mississippi authorities arguing, based on Roe v. Wade, that the United States Constitution, though it nowhere mentions abortion or babies in the womb at all, implicitly recognizes that a woman has the right to abort her baby for any reason up to the point of presumed outside-the-womb viability (which the Roe court opined was not until the beginning of the third trimester). The abortion provider's argument was that state legislatures could not restrict abortions prior to the third trimester.

The Supreme Court merely ruled that there is no federally-guaranteed or constitutional right to an abortion, and that therefore the State legislature of Mississippi, or any other state legislature for that matter, must decide for itself if, when, and under what circumstances abortion is or is not going to be allowed within that state's sovereign boundaries.

The Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs does NOT mean that abortions are now illegal across the United States. Abortion availability in this country will not magically go away. Since by no means are all states likely to outlaw abortions, if a woman really wants to abort her baby the most she will have to do to make that happen is travel to an abortion-friendly state to have the procedure she wants.

12/09/2021

BE INFORMED ...

Texas Residents - Executive Order GA-40, signed by Governor Abbott on October 11, 2021, in response to the announcement of federal vaccine mandates - provides in pertinent part as follows:
'[No] entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or consumer, who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, based on a religious belief, or for medical reasons, including a prior recovery from COVID-19."

This is presently the law in Texas. The full text can be found at Volume 46 of the Texas Register, at pages 7295 and 7296.

NOTICE: If you are subjected to an illegal vaccine requirement by a Texas employer or other entity, the Texas Workforce Commission suggests you contact it at (800) 939-6631 or on line at vaccine job [email protected]

2ND NOTICE: No social media platform has the author of this post's permission to refer any reader of this post to any propaganda page pretending to be a public information page.

09/20/2021

CAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - OR INDIVIDUAL STATES - PUT RESTRICTIONS ON YOUR TRAVEL WITHIN THE COUNTRY? CAN THEY, LIKE AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES, DEMAND 'PAPERS'?

The United States Constitution contains many guarantees protecting the personal and civil liberties of Americans against over-reaching federal or state government policies, actions, and actors. Among the Constitution's many protection clauses is the 'privileges and immunities clause'. This is found at Article IV, Section 2, and provides that "THE CITIZENS OF EACH STATE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO ALL PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF CITIZENS IN THE SEVERAL STATES."

This has been deemed to include the right of ‘free ingress and regress to and from neighboring states' that was spoken of as an established right in the Articles of Confederation.

Know your rights. Be prepared to calmly, peacefully, but steadfastly resist all unconstitutional acts of tyranny.

07/29/2021

ARKANSAS' NEW 'STAY-IN-YOUR-LANE' LAW

For those of you who drive on four or more lane highways in Arkansas (like Interstate 30), a new law went into effect on July 28, prohibiting travel in the inside (left) lane UNLESS one of the following four situations is in play:

1. You are in the process of passing another vehicle, or
2. all other lanes are closed to traffic.
3. all other lanes are in disrepair, undrivable, or unsafe.
4. you are preparing to take an exit that is on the left.

Be careful out there!

03/19/2021

FREE SPEECH

According to the United States Supreme Court, a fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that the government may not punish or suppress speech based on disapproval of the ideas or perspectives the speech conveys. Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of Univ. of Va., 515 U.S. 819, 828-829, 115 S.Ct. 2510, 132 L.Ed.2d 700. The test for viewpoint discrimination is whether . . . the government has singled out a subset of messages for disfavor based on the views expressed.

03/19/2021

FREE SPEECH

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits government officials from infringing any American citizen's right to freedom of speech along with freedom of association and freedom of religion.

Less than a decade ago, the United States Supreme Court affirmed this precious right in the modern era, stating plainly: "The Constitution demands that content-based restrictions on speech be presumed invalid . . . and that the Government bear the burden of showing their constitutionality." Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, 542 U.S. 656, 660, 124 S.Ct. 2783, 159 L.Ed.2d 690 [2012].

01/11/2021

What is the 'Insurrection Act'?

It is a law enacted back in 1807, which reads as follows:

"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.

APPROVED, March 3, 1807.

Two key issues involved with any theoretical invocation of this Act are:

1. Is there either something going on that meets the legal definition of either an 'insurrection' or an 'obstruction to the laws'; and
2. assuming there is something of that level going on, what level, under what protocols of engagement, of involvement of the armed services is 'necessary' to respond to that insurrection and/or obstruction of the laws?