THE EVOLUTION OF JUDICIAL TYRANNY IN THE UNITED STATES:

"If the judges interpret the laws themselves, and suffer none else to interpret, they may easily make, of the laws, [a shredded] shipman's hose!" - King James I of England, around 1616.

“No class of the community ought to be allowed freer scope in the expression or publication of opinions as to the capacity, impartiality or integrity of judges than members of the bar. They have the best opportunities of observing and forming a correct judgment. They are in constant attendance on the courts. Hundreds of those who are called on to vote never enter a court-house, or if they do, it is only at intervals as jurors, witnesses or parties. To say that an attorney can only act or speak on this subject under liability to be called to account and to be deprived of his profession and livelihood by the very judge or judges whom he may consider it his duty to attack and expose, is a position too monstrous to be entertained for a moment under our present system,” Justice Sharwood in Ex Parte Steinman and Hensel, 95 Pa 220, 238-39 (1880).

“This case illustrates to me the serious consequences to the Bar itself of not affording the full protections of the First Amendment to its applicants for admission. For this record shows that [the rejected attorney candidate] has many of the qualities that are needed in the American Bar. It shows not only that [the rejected attorney candidate] has followed a high moral, ethical and patriotic course in all of the activities of his life, but also that he combines these more common virtues with the uncommon virtue of courage to stand by his principles at any cost.

It is such men as these who have most greatly honored the profession of the law. The legal profession will lose much of its nobility and its glory if it is not constantly replenished with lawyers like these. To force the Bar to become a group of thoroughly orthodox, time-serving, government-fearing individuals is to humiliate and degrade it.” In Re Anastaplo, 18 Ill. 2d 182, 163 N.E.2d 429 (1959), cert. granted, 362 U.S. 968 (1960), affirmed over strong dissent, 366 U.S. 82 (1961), Justice Black, Chief Justice Douglas and Justice Brennan, dissenting.

" I do not believe that the practice of law is a "privilege" which empowers Government to deny lawyers their constitutional rights. The mere fact that a lawyer has important responsibilities in society does not require or even permit the State to deprive him of those protections of freedom set out in the Bill of Rights for the precise purpose of insuring the independence of the individual against the Government and those acting for the Government”. Lathrop v Donohue, 367 US 820 (1961), Justice Black, dissenting.

"The legal profession must take great care not to emulate the many occupational groups that have managed to convert licensure from a sharp weapon of public defense into blunt instrument of self-enrichment". Walter Gellhorn, "The Abuse of Occupational Licensing", University of Chicago Law Review, Volume 44 Issue 1, September of 1976.

“Because the law requires that judges no matter how corrupt, who do not act in the clear absence of jurisdiction while performing a judicial act, are immune from suit, former Judge Ciavarella will escape liability for the vast majority of his conduct in this action. This is, to be sure, against the popular will, but it is the very oath which he is alleged to have so indecently, cavalierly, baselessly and willfully violated for personal gain that requires this Court to find him immune from suit”, District Judge A. Richard Caputo in H.T., et al, v. Ciavarella, Jr, et al, Case No. 3:09-cv-00286-ARC in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Document 336, page 18, November 20, 2009. This is about judges who were sentencing kids to juvenile detention for kickbacks.

Friday, January 23, 2015

4th Department continues to play games with me


On January 12, 2015 I wrote the following letter to the Appellate Division 4th Department:



Today I received the following answer from the court:


The court continues to play games.

The court, in fact, has an obligation to make sure that the law is observed and that the referee gives me a hearing that the court ordered him to give me.

Nevertheless, the court now tells me that I will not get another referee - and the court-ordered hearing - unless I make a motion in accordance with (1) rules of court, (2) the illegal anti-filing injunction that the court already imposed upon me without notice or opportunity to be heard BECAUSE I filed with the court a request to disqualify that same referee, and supported my motion with the transcript with the referee's statement on record indicating referee's intention back in October of 2014 to grant prosecution's motion instead of conducting the court-ordered hearing, which is what the referee was appointed for.

That motion was denied without an explanation and with imposition of an anti-filing injunction, even though it was clearly supported by law and facts.

It is apparent that, under the circumstances, any motions on the same topic of referee's incompetence and misconduct are futile.  I will not be playing games with the court.  I will instead be patiently waiting for the referee to do what the court ordered him to do - to hear the facts and report them to the court.

In my previous post regarding judicial discipline, I provided a summary table where one of the judges, Arlene Brown, was forced to resign off the bench and not seek judicial office in the future because she failed to provide litigants opportunity to be heard in compliance with the law.

In my case, one of the judges on my disciplinary panel who repeatedly deny me due process of law in compliance with the applicable law and who engage in harassment such as this letter, was recently nominated to the New York State Court of Appeals.

Something else Mr. Bharara of the U.S. Attorney General's office prosecuting Sheldon Silver should, probably, look at.

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