Wednesday, May 18, 2016

A petition was made to the U.S. Congress, Judiciary Committee, for legislation ensuring access to court and prohibiting retaliation for making constitutional arguments in court and administrative proceedings. Please, sign it. It is for everybody's benefit.

Here is the petition.

Here is the text of the petition:

Courts in the U.S., including the U.S. Supreme Court, created unreasonable rules restricting or barring access to court.
Those rules (1) condition e-filing on attorney status, (2) restrict page limit in constitutional arguments, (3) impose printing and booklet, typesetting and multiple copy requirements for filings (U.S. Supreme Court) that cost litigants additionally thousands of dollars in costs and make appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court impossible for the majority of litigants in the United States, (4) relegate civil rights appeals to not-so diligent "summary", "non-precedential" review, (5) punish litigants and their attorneys for constitutional arguments, (6) suspend and disbar civil rights attorneys for raising constitutional arguments that judges do not like, and that especially concerns criticism of the judiciary.
This petition requests the U.S. Congress to introduce legislation, Civil Rights Protection Act that would eliminate all such rules unreasonably burdening access to courts.  Since courts adamantly refuse to abide by their constitutional oath of office and punish litigants and their attorneys for constitutional arguments in court, federal legislation is desperately needed to (1) lift judicial immunity for such retaliative actions and to (2) prohibit any and all sanctions by state or federal government officials imposed in response to constitutional arguments raised in court or administrative proceedings.
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I encourage my readers to sign the petition.
All I am asking is to establish firm laws prohibiting judges from retalilation against litigants and their attorneys for raising constitutional arguments in court, to remove judicial immunity for such retaliation, as a mechanism of enforcement of such laws, and to eliminate all rules that bar or restrict access to court unreasonably, or provide unequal access to court on the basis of attorney or pro se status.
Such a federal legislation will benefit all Americans and is greatly overdue.
Thank you.

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The sketch on the petition is courtesy of artist Alexander Kolganov, of Moscow, Russia.  Thank you, Alexander!

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An update as of may 19, 2016:  I added to the petition a letter that will be forwarded to the U.S. Congress Judiciary Committees (in Senate and House) detailing and outlining discrimination and restriction of access to court to pro se parties and civil rights litigants.

Please, sign the petition.

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