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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChief Justice Draws Guffaws With His Claim That Federal Courts Operate Honestly
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2012/01/chief-justice-draws-guffaws-with-his.html
John Roberts, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, says in a year-end report that he has "complete confidence" that federal judges behave in an ethical fashion. One prominent legal journalist calls the Roberts report a "whitewash." We would call it a sign that Roberts is living on Fantasy Island. More importantly, it's a sign that oversight is needed in courts because judges clearly cannot be trusted to police themselves.
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Questions related to Obamacare only skim the surface of ethical problems with the federal judiciary. We have shown that Bush-era political prosecutions, such as those involving former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and Mississippi attorney Paul Minor, were enabled by numerous unlawful rulings from federal trial-court judges. We also have shown that federal appellate judges unlawfully upheld those rulings, apparently more interested in protecting their judicial brethren than in ensuring that the law is applied correctly and fairly.
In my own legal world, 2011 was filled with examples of federal district judges ruling contrary to law on matters that are clear and simple--and with judges from the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta mostly upholding findings that are contrary to long-standing precedent. In the first few months of 2012, I will be presenting ample evidence from my own legal battles that show our federal courts are infested with corruption.
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Kreig even hints that Roberts released his report late on New Year's Eve so that it would largely slip under the radar of the mainstream media:
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the ending sentence: Under the current system, John Roberts and his colleagues in the federal judiciary answer to no one. And they want to keep it that way.
may John fall down
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Chief Justice Draws Guffaws With His Claim That Federal Courts Operate Honestly (Original Post)
ensho
Jan 2012
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russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)2. The courts have been purchased on an extended payment plan.
nt
xchrom
(108,903 posts)3. Du rec. Nt
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)5. Definite KNR for this...
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)6. Yeah, right,
K&R