Not ****ed up at all in my mind- do you want the position most likely to result in an improvement on actually getting people their rights back, or do you want the position that is nearly certain to fail, and pisses in the well and potentially ruins that opportunity for others? It's literally that simple.
My own little world? LOL. What he is doing will likely never affect me one way or the other, even if he ****s up miserably- but could possibly have a drastic affect on other people (just like him!) who have had their rights violated by the state. In the long term he potentially could even be "kicking his own ass" so to speak as other cases could result in some sort of mechanism to restore his rights as well. He's just too stupid to see that forward. Either that or he's being put up to do this intentionally, although that doesn't seem likely... the signs of this are absent, but I would not be surprised if Bloomberg has people waiting in the wings to try something like this.
Being puritanical doesn't often work, assuming that we're playing inside the rules of the system. Now if the argument is that the system is the problem, then that's a whole other ball of wax that would make his claim look small in comparison. (eg, the next civil war, etc, so on. ) You are right to think that , on that level "this does not have a court solution". I just think it's very costly, I don't think most people are willing to go there yet.
-Mike