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.

Monday, October 25, 2021

On the lightning striking twice into the same Delaware County judicial seat - an afterthought on the sudden "retirement" of "judge" Richard Northrup, Delaware County, New York

Isn't it just a little weird to a reasonable observer that in a county with disappearing population, over a period of just 6 years, two judges, one after the other, ran from the same judicial seat mid-term, each forfeiting( $209,000 (salary per year) - 114,000 (annual pension)) times 3.5 years = $332,500 in income? 

While neither one of them was known for letting a penny pass by?

And each forfeiting this kind of money to "spend more time with their family, travel, sleep and take care of their well-being"?

And this is happening despite absolute judicial immunity for malicious and corrupt acts in office given to all American judges by the U.S. Supreme Court in Stump v Sparkman and despite efforts of the New York State Commission for Judicial Conduct to shred without investigation all complaints against judges no matter how serious and how well supported by documentary evidence?

In a county the size of several European country with population of around 40,000 (thousand, no mistake) people - meaning, a thin-populated county with a lot of rural roads, some through the mountains, close to New York City - a haven for all kinds of traffickers: drug, guns, other contraband, slave-trading - adult and child.

WHAT did Judge Becker and then his friend and successor on the throne Judge Northrup do to trigger THE BOOT?

Shouldn't the FBI look closer at this County just based on this improbable statistic - 

2 judges resigned from the same seat mid-term within 6 years?  Again, in a county with nearly no population and a lot of secret roads for all kinds of trafficking?

I think people have a right to know - what is REALLY going on.


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