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http://www.falseallegations.com/drano120-supreme-court-judicial-immunity-gould-42304.htm
The questions presented are here (below) for your convenience. They arose out of a case in which I sued four State judges in federal district court.
I wish the law review article you sent (thanks! nedd9, whoever you are) were written two years earlier. I did not read the whole thing in the last few minutes since I recived the article, but I did skim a few sections here and there.
The one thing I noticed is that it did not address the IMPEDIMENT to getting a court to try the issue of whether a judge's behavior was good or bad. I will not attempt to locate the authors and try to commuicate with them.
QUESTIONS PRESENTED
- Whether the judicially-created doctrine that declares judges absolutely immune from suit may bar claims against judges by a person exercising his First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
- Whether a judge’s intentional and knowing contravention of existing mandatory, nondiscretionary, statutes violates the “good behavior” clause of the United States constitution and thereby makes the protection of judicial immunity unavailable.
- Whether a judge’s intentional and knowing contravention of existing mandatory, nondiscretionary, statutes constitutes “bad behavior,” making the award of judicial immunity unavailable.
- Whether a judicially-created amendment, the unratified, second prong of the Eleventh Amendment to the federal constitution, may bar money-damage claims against the Petitioner’s State’s judges under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the state and federal constitutions, and common law.
Barbara C. Johnson, Advocate of Court Reform and Attorney at Law
6 Appletree Lane
Andover, MA 01810-4102
978-474-0833
barbaracjohnson@verizon.net
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There are four people who can do the job:
Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
Everybody thinks Somebody will surely do it.
It is a job Anybody can do. But Nobody is doing it.
At least I'm trying. What are you doing?
It is dangerous to be right
when the government is wrong.
— VOLTAIRE
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
— ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860)
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Dear Judicial Reform Advocates,
Kindly find below an article submitted for distribution that deals with the annual meeting of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts and the other top federal judges of the Judicial Conference in Washington, DC, next Tuesday-Wednesday, September 16-17.
The Conference Committees are scheduled to meet on Monday, September 15, at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building (see below).
The Conference will afford reporters, investigative journalists, and bloggers the opportunity to confront the judges of the Judiciary’s governing body with, in general, the facts discussed below of their unaccountability for the totality of their conduct of judicial and non-judicial acts and, in particular, the referenced evidence of bankruptcy, district, and circuit judges who are abusing such unaccountability to support and cover up a bankruptcy fraud scheme driven by a most insidious corruptor: Money!
In addition, given the enormous power that judges wield over people’s property, liberty, and even lives, and the fact that however they exercise it, they can get away with it, they have turned their judicial power into absolute power. Such is the power that corrupts absolutely.
For those media people who seize the opportunity of the Conference to set in motion an investigation into how unaccountable judges have used the Money and Power corruptors to operate a scheme and who ultimately bring judges down from their “Above the law” position to account for their coordination of wrongdoing, the rewards can be high:
1) to win a Pulitzer Prize, as Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post did for their exposé of Watergate;
2) to be portrayed in a movie, as they were in “All the President’s Men”, staring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman; and
3) to earn the higher moral reward of the recognition of a grateful nation for their contribution to bringing our judicial system closer to the lofty goal of “Equal Justice Under Law” in a nation where nobody is supposed to be above the law.
I respectfully invite you to forward the Newsrelease below to your contacts in the news media and encourage them to cover the Conference and interview its members (see Service List at http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/JNinfo/DrCordero_JNinfo_6jun8.pdf ).
I would appreciate your letting me know at your earliest convenience whether you will join in distributing the article.
Sincerely,
Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq
Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org
tel. (718)827-9521
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Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org
2nd Newsrelease
Judges’ unaccountability for judicial and non-judicial acts
will be fostered at the behind-closed-doors Judicial Conference, September 15-17
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/JNinfo/to_reporters_JudConf_10sep8.pdf
The Judicial Conference of the U.S. is the highest court administration policy-making body of the Federal Judiciary. It will hold its secretive annual meeting next September 16-17: First Chief Justice John Roberts will preside over its plenary session at the Supreme Court, (202)479-3011 and -3211. Then the 12 representative district judges and the 14 chief circuit and national court judges will hold separate meetings at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, One Columbus Circle NE, in Washington, D.C. There the committees of the Conference meet on Monday at its secretariat, maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, (202) 502-2400; http://www.uscourts.gov/.
The Judiciary, just as Congress and the Presidency, was created by “We, the People” of a democratic society that is founded on the openness of access and transparency of activity of government to the governed. What is more, the aspect of government entrusted to the Judiciary, namely, justice, demands that it be administered in public so that the people can ascertain whether it satisfies its essential requirements of equality, reasonableness, and predictability. Those requirements are not limited to a courtroom open to everybody. The public administration of justice demands that they also be satisfied during the formulation of policy and procedural rules by the judges, who subsequently apply them in their courtrooms.
However, the judges’ input in their formulation before and at the behind-closed-door Conference is secret. About six months later, a sanitized report of the Conference is issued by the Administrative Office. (id. >Judicial Conference >Proceedings) This is as if Congress never held in public any plenary or committee sessions; as if the President never allowed journalists to attend oval office or cabinet meetings; and as if they only sent to a press conference a spokesperson with a scripted story of what occurred at those sessions or meetings. Such secrecy would foster what it actually has in the Judiciary and is so cherished to judges: unaccountability for both judicial and non-judicial acts, hence, the totality of their conduct.
Judges’ unaccountability for judicial acts assignable as error on appeal
Judicial acts consist of the rulings, orders, findings, and judgments that judges make to dispose of controversies brought by parties before them. Judges are not accountable for those acts. A party can only assign the acts as error on appeal. But even if the appellate judges reversed all the judicial acts of a judge, no harm would come to him –or her-: His pay cannot be reduced while in office and only Congress can impeach and remove him therefrom. Likewise, his promotion to a higher court or status does not depend on his peers’ assessment of his performance; only the President and the Senate can so promote a judge.
Moreover, a judge’s judicial acts are overwhelmingly more likely to stand than be reversed on appeal. To begin with, an appeal requires an enormous amount of effort and time and can cost from tens of thousands to millions of dollars. Then the appellate judges can dismiss the appeal or rubberstamp the act “Affirmed” in a summary order. The latter disposes of the appeal without any statement of reasons, without precedential value, and some circuits may not even allow it to be cited. According to the Handbook of the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit (CA2), “Approximately 75% of all cases are decided by summary order [, which] have no precedential authority.” http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/clerk.htm >2nd Circuit Handbook, pg17
Reversing a judicial act on appeal requires that appellate judges, to begin with, read the briefs, then discuss what the peer below did, conclude that it constituted reversible error, and explain what the error was so that on remand it may not be repeated. That defeats the purpose of summary orders, which is skip-it-all expediency. Thus, the overwhelming majority of summary orders is used to get rid of appeals brought by individuals representing themselves, i.e., pro se. Indeed, in 2005 CA2 bragged that “We know of no other Federal Appeals Court that allows pro se litigants other than incarcerated prisoners to argue.” http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/Reports/05/2005%20Annual%20Report%20-%20FINAL.htm >Statistics>pg111. Pro se litigants, almost by definition the poor, get unaccountable, unreviewable, expedient ‘justice’ from judges who indulge in any judicial act.
Judges’ unaccountability for non-judicial acts impugned in complaints
Judges’ non-judicial acts can be challenged by any person, including a party, filing a complaint under the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980 (28 U.S.C. §§351-364) with the respective chief circuit judge. They include “conflict of interests, bribery, corruption, abuse of judicial power, bias, prejudice, incompetence, neglect, undue decisional delay, demeanor, mental or physical disability”. In the 1997-2006 period, 7,462 complaints were filed, but the judges appointed only 7 investigative committees and disciplined only 9 of their peers. They dismissed out of hand without any investigation 99.88% of all complaints! (See links to the official statistics in the a-h notes under their graphic illustration at http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org .)
This is in line with the fact that of all the thousands of federal judges that have served –just now 2,180 judicial officers are subject to the Act-, in the 219 years since the creation of the Federal Judiciary in 1789, the number of those impeached and removed from the bench is 7! (id.) On average, that is 1 every 31 years, which is longer than the average length of service of judges. They can indulge in any non-judicial act too, for judges hold themselves totally unaccountable.
A judicial misconduct complaint for reporters to test
judges’ unaccountability at the Judicial Conference
To prove it, a complaint was filed last June 9 against a WBNY bankruptcy judge for his participation in a bankruptcy fraud scheme under the cover of district and circuit judges. It has been brought to the attention of Chief Justice Roberts and each of the other Conference members. They were requested to use the “informal means of disposing of complaints” –which they included in the Rules that they adopted for implementing the Act- to persuade CA2 Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs to apply the Act and the Rules to appoint a committee to investigate the complaint. The Conference Secretariat has stated that the members do not have authority to do so. (id.)
Thus, the judges shirk their collegial responsibility for the integrity of the Judiciary and judicial process by pretending that they cannot recommend informally to a peer to appoint a committee to investigate the filed evidence of a judicially supported bankruptcy fraud scheme so that they can dismantle it. Yet, they can and systematically do dispose of 99.88% of all complaints by means as informal as a chief judge suggesting to a complained-about judge over lobster and whisky at a sponsor-paid judicial junket to be less obvious when engaging in the acts cited in the all but dismissed complaint, even if dealing with bribery, conflict of interest, and abuse of power.
A call for investigative journalism
The Judicial Conference on September 15-17 offers the occasion for reporters, investigative journalists, and bloggers to contact the judges (names and phone numbers at id. note h) before it at their courts or during it at their hotels in D.C. to interview them about their justification for placing themselves in practice through their unaccountability for their judicial and non-judicial acts where no person is entitled to be in a democratic society governed by the rule of law: Above the law.
Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq
Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org
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From: secretjusticepr@yahoo.com
posted by The Stark Raving Viking at 9/14/2008 10:18:00 AM
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