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, August 15, 2025

On costly ghost litigation attorneys for Delaware County, NY and the election picks by the current crooks - oh, oops, public officials

Delaware County, New York, is one of the poorest rural counties in the State of New York, if not the poorest.

It is also one of just 7 or less state counties ruled by the local tribes ("weighted voting plans") and not by the straight one man - one vote plan.

As a result of the tribal rule, the County is notorious in various fiscal scandals - which are usually squirrelled under the rug.


I don't know though how will the County be able to explain to the taxpayers this kind of information:

The County Attorney's office bluntly tells me, a County property taxpayer, that the County has paid tens if not hundreds of thousand of dollars to outside private attorneys representing the County in various lawsuits, mostly caused by misconduct and/or incompetence of County officers and employees, and paid it WITHOUT A SINGLE WRITTEN CONTRACT.

This is an election year.

The County's Republican Party that illegally put at its helm a convicted DRUNK KILLER Kathetine Taggart is pushing upon voters and taxpayers the County Treasurer, Beverly Shields "choice" of the new Treasurer. 

THIS is Beverly Shields ' lousy inheritance.

As is information I am seeking in my FOIL request filed today.  




Answers to this FOIL request will clarify the funneling of 💰 to outside law firms without written contracts, as well as many more shenannigans of which the County Treasurer, and County Attorney Amy Merklen, and the County Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors Tina Mole, must be well aware.

One thing is certain: insurance may not cover legal representation of County officers and employees sued - as they were and are recently - for intentional misconduct, in their individual capacities. That is, very simply, the law.

Such individuals must have to hire their own counsel and pay their own money out of their own pocket for such representation, a concept, obviously, completely foreign to the local so-called public officials.

When you vote these coming elections, especially for the Treasurer, do your research and do not vote in those who the present crooks endorse.  They are endorsed for a reason - to keep the olden-time bad fiscal practices, let's politely call them this way, ongoing forever.

Let us just put a stop to the drain to taxpayers' much-suffering pocketbooks.

Vote in somebody not of the present "system".

You will do yourselves a big, big favor.




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