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.


Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Protectors of sex abusers in high places - up to the U.S. Supreme Court

I guess, New York has disregarded this precedent - meant, of course, to protect the sex abusers (priests) when it has put into place the same statutes and prosectued Harvey Weinstein and others under it.

"Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that California's retroactive extension of the statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against minors was an unconstitutional ex post facto law."


 I wonder if the US Supreme Court justices who decided this one were personally involved with the Catholic church - or specific Catholic priests.

Scalia certainly was.

Monday, August 10, 2020

More on freedom of speech in the American academia. How can scared-to-death-to-speak-their-mind professors teach students critical thinking?

Recently I have published a translation of a eulogy on the suicide of a harassed-to-death-for-his-conservative-views law professor Michael Adams.

http://attorneyindependence.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-belated-eulogy-for-untimely-death-by.html

From a Russian lawyer, from Russia, mind.  Nobody from the brave American legal profession dared to do the same on this side of the pond.

Now, I am publishing an entire text of a professor from the prestigious Berkley University in the blessed "Democratic" state of California.

Who, unlike the fearless law professor Michael Adams who has paid with his life for his right to freely and publicly express his views, preferred to remain alive and gainfully employed in this prestigiousting his letter as an anonymous author.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3855424/posts?fbclid=IwAR3s8vSM-W045-Rr5AdiFpTqQeZIeCQl5CRVar6UbgHwPwYsZmCuuUJbcxY

Read that, complete with comments underneath it.

And, please, tell me, how are we different from dictatorships.

And how can scared-to-death academia bring up critical-thinking educated citizenry?

 

 

 

Friday, August 7, 2020

On Facebook's closure of the 200,000 member public Q Anon group.- future litigation against Facebook promises to be entertaining

 

I often wonder how super large companies like Facebook operate in terms of publicity.

Today there was an announcement by Reuters, which is supposed to be a respectable media source, that is supposed spokesman of Facebook who, nevertheless, declined to be identified, announced the Facebook has closed at 200,000 people public group called Q Anon for supposed hate speech and spreading misinformation, and for other violations of company policies.

https://reut.rs/2DsRTd8

No examples were given, no links, no scans, no evidence at all.  Apparently, the level of journalism even, in Reuters, is sinking through the floor.

How can an honest and borderline competent journalist, in a giant international respectable media source publish something without evidence from a spokesperson for giant company trading publicly on the securities market who nevertheless declines to be identified?

This is not fake information? This is not fake news?

So, Facebook, through its spokeswoman who refused to be identified, has publicly defamed each and every one of the over 200,000 people who are members of that group, cleaning without a bases in evidence that they are spreading false information and hate speech.

Now I wonder, where are the minds of public relations people who allows such announcements, and especially by spokespeople of the company who decline to be identified.

Facebook has fought and won many lawsuits based on first Amendment freedom of speech, claiming it is a private company, and freedom of speech requirements of the US Constitution do not apply to it.

True, but there are other ways Facebook is exposing itself, badly, to litigation, and it does pay do sometimes hire lawyers not because of their connections, but because of their brains and knowledge, which obviously Facebook does not do.

I'm looking forward to the 1st lawsuit against Facebook for violation of user agreements. 

By this agreement, private users, including those in the qanon group, agreed to allow Facebook to use their personal information to peddle it to certain advertisers, based, supposedly, on those private users' interests, as expressed in their posts on Facebook.

 I can personally testify under oath as to Facebook violating that particular Clause of the agreement, by suppressing political advertisements according to users interests and instead pulling into the users ' feed aggressive unsolicited political advertisement from political opponents of the user, which is contrary to the terms of the agreement. 

 Also, in return for Facebook's permission for users to specifically create communities on Facebook's platform, users agree to abide by Facebook company policies. 

And here comes a glitch, and a big one.      

A contract like that is a contract of adhesion, once people are sucked in and create that community, Facebook, while continuing to use private information of those two hundred thousand people in the group as eyeballs for advertisers, creates company policies, ever-changing, vague and arbitrary to the point that it is impossible for a private user not to violate them, if Facebook wants to arbitrarilily censure their activities.  

  So, it is fraud on behalf of Facebook and failure of consideration, pure and simple, no first Amendment claims needed. 

 So yes, the user may choose to quit Facebook, before he does so, he may demand Facebook disgorge, or give back to him, the money improperly gained through using that user's information on Facebook, while blocking, for no good faith reasons, communities that the user has created, thus, denying the user the benefit of the bargain.  

Again, I'm looking forward to when this claim is made in court, because it will be made in court, just a matter of time.  

And, it concerns any and all speech of a Facebook user, political or not, and if political, liberal or conservative, doesn't matter.

 It is a breach of a private agreement and fraud, nothing to do with constitutional law, which, correctly, does not apply to private companies, with the exception of discrimination by private companies providing public functions, which Facebook does provide, allowing account to public officials and public organizations and interaction on those accounts with users.

  Facebook blocks the user - Facebook blocks and direction of the use of with a public official or public organization, which is a first Amendment violation of the petitions clause, not freedom of speech clause. 

 Not to mention that Facebook has recently stopped to peddle its pledge of neutrality (which is far as I remember is contained in its user agreement) and stated to a court of law, in a lawsuit, under oath, but it is now a publisher, and as a publisher, has discretion, absolute discretion percent sure anything it wants in any way it wants, no merit or lack thereof for the censure needed.  

Yay, good for them.

  With the only exception that with such a claim comes publisher liability - which can also be sued upon. 

 So, the future litigation against Facebook is going to be pretty entertaining, as their left hand does not seem to know what their right hand is doing and vice versa.

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

A belated eulogy for the untimely death by suicide of law professor Mike Adams

A heartfelt eulogy by a Russian lawyer on the death of law professor Michael Adams North Carolina who committed suicide on July 27th or a couple days prior, because he was harassed to death by the politically correct crowd in and around his university just because of several tweets where he expressed his conservative opinion.

This country is going down the drain fast if people like Michael Adams, who is rated the best professor by his students, is squeezed out of the academia and harassed to death.

It is a long eulogy, but it is valuable in terms of details and assessment of those details.

Translation, will do it by parts:

"In the memory of professor Mike Adams, we'll take care of and preserve your families!

On the 23rd of July of this cursed year of ours, professor Mike Adams committed suicide before he reached the age of 56.  To be precise he was nearly a former professor - he was squeezed out of his university and on the 1st of August he was supposed to become a former professor.

Who was he, why was he squeezed out and why did it end so badly?

A lawyer and a criminologist, Adam start several subjects in the University of North Carolina - criminal procedure, evidence and other legal nonsense which can become the boring drilling of statutes rules and court cases, or it can become the most entertaining time and one of the best memories of student years.

Professor Adams fit the second category.  On the site read my professor his former students write about him - and not only stellar students,  but C-students,too. It is the same as review of any business, it is always worth it the review negative readings to understand what is going on.  I remember sitting in the best cocktail bar I have ever visited, that was called Aptekas in Vilnius, I checked out its ratings and saw a negative review "there is no beer by the glass" and "there is no TV with sports channels", which is obviously very positive for a cocktail bar.

Similarly, the c-students write - "if you rely on drilling, do not take this course but this is the coolest professor I have had in my entire time in college".

The rest just praise him, and all the ratings agree that there was no professor in that University who would be better, funnier, more educational and more interesting.

God dammit, why did they sack the best?

Adams was a conservative.  This horrible sin in American universities (and in Israeli universities as far as I know, too) is as unforgivable as was homosexuality in the last century. God forbid somebody will learn about it, but if people do know, you need to keep mum (you know this rotten tune - let them do anything in the bedroom but let them do it quietly and so that children would not know).

Back in 2007 already, when the first swallows of militant progressivism have flown through the American skies, Adams was passed over in his promotion to the full tenured professors.  I don't know how it is in Russian and how the economic system works, it is a permanent professorship instead of a temporary. they did not want to take Mike into the real professorship because you had a mouth that he did not want to close.

That same here Adam sued, demanding to stop politically motivated discrimination.  The litigation continued for 7 years.  After he went through several court levels, he has won the right to a jury trial, and after that the university back down and promoted him into the tenured professorship in arrears, as well as paid him full tenured professor salary for the last 7 years.

Despite the torture that he has endured, Adams continued to speak out, and lately allowed himself several unforgivable statements, called the "peaceful protesters" demolishing stores - "rioters", called "people with vaginas" - "women" (I'm afraid to quote any further. If it was enough to harass a professor of law to death, will be enough for sure to block me on Facebook).

Heart-feeling activists have launched on social media campaign for his firing and cooked up a petition "sack the turd".  No it is in America and its satellites there is a magical expression "they do not feel safe" - and as soon as something is said that is not to the liking of the progressivist activists, students begin to "feel they are in danger', and a danger to life must be immediately eliminated.

The crowd of " liberal" (now this word can be used only in quotation marks, since nowadays it means exactly the opposite of what it meant before) activist from Twitter got their way, and the professor was squeezed out.

But of course that was not enough, because one cannot underestimate the danger that was coming from that person, therefore the activist put up boards saying "beware of a racist and chauvinist" opposite his house and glued similar papers over the entire neighborhood, so the neighbors would know with a dangerous maniac lives next door.

A week ago he shot himself.  The man who has raised generations of students, who has taught them to love their profession, who has ignited in them the flame of gaining knowledge, we had grafted onto them the interest in the criminal procedure, a bright outstanding personality - was harassed to death in the name I love the "feeling of safety".

He was not the first, and, regretfully, will not be the last, who has been harassed to death by the progressist riff-raff.  Do you remember the British attorney who in a drunken condition I did something about Hindus on a plane? She has been harassed for half a year until she committed suicide, having destroyed the whole world (by the way not only juice like to talk about "who one soul in Israel", it is a later addition, an add-on, the is no Jew and no ellin in the original, there are only people).

By the way, I was also harassed by these creatures - defenders of all good from all bad, they even printed in newspapers that I am a misogynist, they even forward it to me a letter from the biggest women's organization, the cover of this whole snake pit ("irgun gag" it is called). In the letter I was ordered to repent and to present apologies two old women on the planet, otherwise they will file a complaint with the chamber of advocates.

To tell you the truth, the letter was not signed, and, when I inquired about the name of the author in order to file a complaint with the police about blackmailing, the courage left the tiresome strugglers for the rights of women (which I do not know why anybody needs to fight for if they exist for a long time and are confirmed in the law), and they got lost in the oblivion.

Now for the most important thing.  Well what I said previously is important to, but this is even more important.

The majority, the overwhelming majority! Of those harassed to death were single.

Never married, divorced, out of relationships (or it would be more proper to say separated?) - without a wife who would give you a hug in consolation and who would tell you, let them go to hell!

I remember I had a boy who went to rob a store with his best friends, but gor caught as an idiot, and decided to become a witness for the prosecution, to betray his best friends so that they would let him go.  I do not work with such people, so I called his wife and told her I'm leaving. I remember I was trying to find a good replacement attorney instead of myself for him, end up nobody out of decent people wanted to take such a client on.

So, when his wife has heard the reason for my leaving, she said - I will not live with him.  But now, while he's still in jail, I will be with him to the end, with when it will all finish, we will split, because you cannot trust such a person.

But now I must support him, because when we were getting married, I promised in joy and in sadness, and now it is sadness, and I must go through this with him without regard what I'm feeling right now.

Therefore, let's drink to our "halves", and not even 'halves", but real halves of ourselves, without home where only half a human.

Because those who have a good life partner shoot themselves a lot more rarely.

Because family it is, it is the true life, and work is just a means to feed the family and to do what you love to do, and however you're being harassed will fired you can find another job and another opportunity to do what you love to do.

And the search for that human who will become for you protection from death in the meaning of your life and you for her, me take the whole of your lifetime, and the result is not guaranteed.  It is not by chance that I have two bachelor friends both over 40, both amazing intelligent people, I saw such girls, too, who are despairing already.

Pablo Neruda said the right thing - "Si nada nos salva de la muerte, al menos que el amor nos salve de la vida".

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So, here.

His numerous former and present students, his colleagues and his friends are afraid, as I understand, to say about him and about his untimely outrageous death by harassment what an out of the country foreign attorney dared to say.

And that is the saddest statement as to the state of the country we have become.

Done by speech to text dictation, apologies for possible mistakes.

Sunday, April 5, 2020

Do not criticize Cuomo during the pandemic!

Governor Cuomo has started to show frustration with "irrational outbursts" of "some individuals" who, as a result of "cabin fever", are attacking the flawless performance of public officials and "undermining public tranquility".

 Doesn't like criticism, this one.

After all, what is there to criticize about Cuomo's performance as a public official?

Disbanding the public corruption (Moreland) commission when it started to investigate his surroundings.

Giving lush jobs to his criminal friends who have saved his sorry ass from a public corruption investigation (Exhibit 1 - Chief NYS Judge DiFiore and her hubby awarded a seat on cushy Gaming Commission).

Giving himself a 40% raise during the pandemic, budget crisis and economic disaster for individual New Yorkers and small & medium-sized businesses. Suffocating the upstate seniors because billionaires in NYC need their vents.

Indeed, what is there to criticize.

Cabin fever.

Irrational outbursts.

Heroes maintaining public tranquility.

Cabin fever like this, eh?














3 senators so far contracted the "cabin fever".

Senator Stefanik is "cabin-feverish" to the point of starting online petitions against the executive order "to share".






So, after all of this "cabin-fever" irrational activity of legislators undermining Cuomo's efforts in maintaining public tranquility he has finally addressed the issue of seizure by National Guard of ventilators from the upstate for NYC at the press-conference.

In the only way he knows how.

He lied.

He is a l(iar)awyer, remember?

He has been taught how to maintain a certain legal position without regard to its truth or falsity.

Because -

 1. He said that 0 vents were seized from upstate, while

 2. In comments, people report that vents were sanitized and turned over to the National Guard pursuant to his (kind sharing) eugenic seize-order.



 Now, Andrew Cuomo as a liar?

 No way...

Of course, Cuomo's own former senior staffers say - "yes, way".



And, an interesting question asked by a New Yorker re reports by Cuomo that upstate NY does not have a surge of CV cases.


Probably, another case of irrational carbon fever to ask such questions, don't you think?

Yet, I have reports from people who were denied testing in upstate NY while having symptoms - and I don't know whether that was for


  1.  lack of test kits, or because of
  2.  Government policy - 
So that it would be easier to present #NYlivesdonotmatter as #letsshare because #NYCneedsitmore.

Because Cuomo's voting base is there.

And, a wholly different amount of financial support is needed to put duce Cuomo into the White House to be the de facto President over the obviously demented and declining Biden.

Hence - #UpstateNYlivesdonotmatter.

The " playbook" does.

And, people with, supposedly, a cabin fever, ask questions like this


Which, after having lived and worked in the NY legal community for 16 years, I would consider quite a legitimate question.

And questions like this - what was the Governor doing at a secret posh fundraiser on March14, 2020?  Was preparing for the pandemic?  Discussing production of ventilators that today he lamented requires more than 2 weeks, logistically,  to produce?

He had those 2 weeks then.

How many lives could have been saved from a horrible death by suffocation had duce Cuomo been doing his job,  not just lining his own and his friends' pockets?

Many watchers of his press-conference from outside NY said - "we envy you, New Yorkers", "such an intelligent man", "Cuomo first President".

I am sure,

1. New Yorkers would let other states borrow Andy and will pay them to keep him, knowing his true history and essence,

2. As to his Presidency - no, thank you.

No more l(ia)awyers for President, especially corrupt ones.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Is it easy or difficult to enforce the federal constitutional right to impartial judicial review in the state of Louisiana

An interview with a practicing Louisiana attorney Christine Mire, in English, with Russian subtitles.

This material is unique, as the topic - judicial misconduct and motions to recuse judges based on judicial misconduct - is mostly taboo in the US amongst members of the legal profession.

Yet, sun, as a US Supreme Court Justice have told us long time ago, is the best disinfectant, so here is the discussion of points of law and of facts of one motion to recuse to contribute to public debate as to how to improve access to justice in the United States.

You won't regret listening to what attorney Christine Mire has to say on the topic.

I admire her beautiful English language, her expertise as a professional lawyer, her dedication to her clients - and, last, but not least at all - her courage.

Christine Mire, the conscience of the American legal profession.



Tuesday, March 17, 2020

People need the truth about how did corona virus pandemic start

I understand that this is an explosive - and highly political - issue.

But, when the government is mum, while there are a lot of factual information raising questions - and eyebrows - people will inevitably think the government is hiding something.

In the State of Washington, the spread of corona virus started out of 1 nursing home where 40 people died.

A criminal investigation is in order.

Is it being done?

The timeline of the spread of corona virus is disturbing.

October 2019 - Johns Hopkins University together with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (global vaccine pushers) stage a simulation of - guess what - a coronavirus pandemic, predicting that:




Now, strict FDA regulations are dropped in order to allow certain pharmaceutical companies - presented to the public as absolute heroes - to quickly invent a vaccine on coronavirus, and a testing on human volunteers of the half-baked vaccine has already started.

That same industry that has previously obtained from the federal government a completely unconstitutional (but SCOTUS-approved nevertheless) Child Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, a federal statute prohibiting ONLY CHILDREN (and not adults injured by vaccines) and ONLY CHILDREN INJURED  BY VACCINES (and not by other medications) to sue vaccine manufacturers in STATE courts (which the federal government may not possibly do), instead having a "fund" set up in such a way that DISCOVERY of causation of vaccine injury to children is blocked - and then pushed through legislations throughout the country to make vaccination mandatory, to the point of not allowing children to go to schools without it, and having parents charged with child neglect and criminally for refusing to vaccinate their children with chemical/biological matters with unknown components that may cause injury or death for which the manufacturers will not even be liable.

You must believe that this same industry are heroes addressing an international crisis.

In your dreams.

Now, as an honest good faith citizen, I do not want to "spread conspiracy theories".

But, I can put certain facts next to one another and at least WONDER if they are related.

I do not have access to investigative capacities that our government has.

That's why, as a citizen, I am asking our U.S. government a question - ARE YOU CONDUCTING A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF HOW THE CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC HAS STARTED?