In Kentucky, it is more of a judicial misconduct to fight racism in the courtroom than to playact a judge's book in court proceedings

Kentucky is an interesting state.

Recently, it came on the news several times:

• because its County Clerk defied the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding legitimizing same sex marriage to the point of going to federal prison - with supporters demonstrating for her in the streets;
• because it suspended its first African-American #judgeOluStevens for fighting against racism in the criminal justice system of the state, and for advancing criminal defendants' federal constitutional right under Batson v Kentucky;
• because after suspending #JudgeOluStevens, the top court of the State of Kentucky defied Batson v Kentucky further by issuing an opinion stating that  judges in Kentucky do not have a right to strike "randomly selected" jury panels lacking racial diversity, because, according to Kentucky highest court, giving a judge such advantages is "short-sighted" and advantages of such power will be "short-lived".  So, the U.S. Supreme Court precedent, on point, issued in 1986 specifically against the State of Kentucky means nothing in the State of Kentucky.

After suspending Judge Olu Stevens for promoting the federal Constitution that every state judge is sworn to uphold in the state court system, the State of Kentucky gave a slap on the wrist of a "public reprimand" to judge Tim Philpot for ordering unnecessary hearings in Family Court to create playacting "research" material for his own book "Biblical analogy of God's love" where he condemns extramarital relationships, promotes marriage and claims that problems of child-rearing can be traced to children being born out of wedlock.

So, the blessed state of Kentucky considers faithfulness to the U.S. Constitution (Judge Olu Stevens) a disqualification for judicial office, and wielding the Bible in the courtroom and holding unnecessary hearings to write a book promoting marriage and condemning the birth of children out of wedlock (Judge Tim Philpot) not to be disqualifying conduct for a Family Court judge.

This forgiveness of Judge Philpot came close in time with North Carolina's forgiveness of a long-time freemason Sudan Shriner Judge Jerry Tillett for case-fixing and intimidating of public officials who dared to arrest his son, in a decision that exempted Judge Tillett and all other NC judges, including the authors of the opinion, all licensed attorneys, from the reach of attorney discipline.

Self-forgiveness is the rule of self-regulation by the judiciary.

We the citizens and taxpayers, as members of the popular sovereign of the United States, should change this attitude by a legislative action.

Soon.