New York State of the Judiciary 2015 address - delving into the State of the Legislature

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, in his State of the Judiciary address, Judge Lippman failed to address glaring problems pertaining to the New York State judiciary that cause and contribute to the "justice gap" that exists at this time.

The only issue that Judge Lippman was interested in was raising pay for judges.

Yet, Judge Lippman made excessive appeals for reforms to one of the two other branches of the government - the Legislative branch.

Judge Lippman appealed to the Legislature to reform this and that, while not trying to reform a damn thing about his own (very) filthy stable, where he could do that, simply by changing court rules of recusal and rules requiring judges to publish their financial reports and family trees (at least to litigants, on conditions of confidentiality, if necessary, as to the rest of the public, but at least allowing litigants to verify for themselves whether a factfinding judge is or is not disqualified from the case).

It is easy to deflect your own problems by pointing into out that your neighbor (the Legislature) did not do his job properly.

But Lippman has enough of his own problems with the judiciary to clean up.

If Lippman does not see those problems and considers New York judiciary "spectacular" and "the absolute best" in the country, as he did in his State of the Judiciary 2015 address, maybe Lippman is not professionally competent for his job as the overseer of the New York court system, and should be taken off that job now, not waiting for his retirement at the end of this year that will not come a second too soon.