Class Action Against Federal Judges Who Systematically Dismiss Judicial Misconduct Complaints
Posted: Thursday, August 24, 2006
by Richard Cordero
Judicial Discipline Reform
Federal judges systematically dismiss misconduct complaints against them and through the resulting absence of any effective mechanism of judicial conduct control have turned a federal judgeship into a safe haven for wrongdoing. This a poignant statement, for establishing that precisely those at all levels of the Judiciary, the Branch of Government whose members are supposed to incarnate moral integrity and respect for the law, have engaged in intentional and coordinated wrongdoing and that the Supreme Court of the U.S. has known and tolerated this situation for decades would shake our government as well as our society to its foundation.
However, impeachment, which by statute takes place in the U.S. House of Representatives, a political body, is a useless mechanism of judicial conduct control. In the more than 215 years of American judicial history under the Constitution only 11 judges have been impeached and only “five convictions were for offenses involving financial improprieties, income tax evasion, and perjury", according to the Late Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Since he was the 16th chief justice of the Supreme Court, this means that a federal judge has a higher statistical chance of becoming chief justice than of being impeached, let alone convicted. In light of their immunity from prosecution as a matter of practice, what would prevent federal judges from giving in to the temptation of exercising abusively and for personal benefit their enormous judicial power over the life, liberty, and property of those appearing before, not to mention complaining against, them? Nothing!…
That is, except the public outrage provoked by truthful and convincing information of federal judges involved in coordinated wrongdoing reported on by bloggers engaged in investigative journalism and lawyers conducting both discovery and a class action against named judges on behalf of those harmed by their bias, disregard for the rule of law, and systematic dismissal of their misconduct complaints. Bloggers and lawyers can so profoundly and widely expose a corrupt organization within the Judiciary as to make it untenable for the defendant-judges to remain in office. These events would force Congress as well as the Department of Justice and the FBI to launch their own in-depth investigation as a first step to a comprehensive reform of the Judiciary.
The fact is that federal judges have proved to be unwilling to discipline or even investigate themselves. It was none other than the Late Chief Justice Rehnquist who recognized that there was a serious problem in the conduct of federal judges when he set up the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act Study Committee and appointed Justice Stephen Breyer to chair it. However, nothing has come out of it despite more than the 18 months to two years having elapsed –during which no hearings were held- that the Committee announced on June 10, 2004, it would allow itself for conducting its study and presenting its results.
By contrast, the official statistics of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts show that for more than a decade circuit chief judges and other top federal judges have systematically dismissed misconduct complaints against their peers in a pattern so uniform and stable that it could not have developed but for coordination among judges protecting themselves from litigants, lawyers, and others complaining against them.
That is exactly what shows the evidence collected during the prosecution for over five years of 11 federal cases. These cases went on appeal to the district court, to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and on to the Supreme Court. The latter denied the petition for a writ of certiorari despite the evidence that what drove the decisions in bankruptcy court, where these cases originated, was the most insidious corruptor known to man: money!, the enormous amount of money over which bankruptcy judges wield hand-changing power. What these cases show is the involvement of bankrupts, trustees, and judges in running and covering up a bankruptcy fraud scheme.
You can decide for yourself whether that is what the evidence shows because it is available to you at http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org. A summarizing introduction to it is provided therein in the “Statement of Facts", which is accompanied by all the court and other official documents supporting every assertion made here. Posted also there is the article “Judges are not immune from prosecution", which discusses the constitutional basis for suing federal judges.
If after examining the evidence, you believe that it points to a bankruptcy fraud scheme and its cover up by top federal judges, you can consider the tasks described on that website that investigative journalists and lawyers can perform to expose coordinated judicial wrongdoing. Then you can post your comments in the blog provided there.
No doubt conducting a Watergate-like Follow the money! investigation through the web of personal relationships of powerful and well-connected federal judges and conducting the legal research and class certification necessary to mount a class action with Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations charges against them are novel and risky endeavors with no assured success. On the contrary, they are most likely to lead to head-on confrontation with judges as well as bankruptcy fraud schemers and trigger a period of turmoil in the system of checks and balances between the three branches of government.
Yet, for those willing and able to engage in exacting work demanding superior ingenuity and professional competency there is the moral reward of public honor and gratitude as well as a personal name forever associated with a noble mission of the highest order: to contribute to the betterment of society by causing its judicial system to actually administer “equal justice under law". Are you up to the task?
If so, visit http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org , read the Statement of Facts, and find out how you can help.
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