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Federal Judges Systematically Dismiss Judicial Conduct Complaints Against Them, Thereby Escaping Any Conduct Control and Turning a Judgeship Into a Safe Haven for Engaging in Coordinated Wrongdoing

by Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.

 

Federal judges systematically dismiss misconduct complaints against them and through the resulting absence of any effective mechanism of judicial conduct control have turned a federal judgeship into a safe haven for wrongdoing. This is a poignant statement, for establishing that precisely those at all levels of the Judiciary, the Branch of Government whose members are supposed to incarnate moral integrity and respect for the law, have engaged in intentional and coordinated wrongdoing and that the Supreme Court of the U.S. has known and tolerated this situation for decades would shake our government as well as our society to its foundation.

To illustrate the grave consequences of exposing systemic wrongdoing by federal judges it suffices to realize that while the Watergate Burglary caused the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August of 1974 and sent to prison many of his closest White House aides, their abuse of power would have naturally come to an end as President Nixon’s second four-year term drew to a close. By contrast, federal judges appointed to courts under Article III of the Constitution hold office for life and they can only be removed through impeachment.

However, impeachment, which by statute takes place in the U.S. House of Representatives, a political body, is a useless mechanism of judicial conduct control. In the more than 215 years of American judicial history under the Constitution only 11 judges have been impeached and only “five convictions were for offenses involving financial improprieties, income tax evasion, and perjury”, according to the Late Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Since he was the 16th chief justice of the Supreme Court, this means that a federal judge has a higher statistical chance of becoming chief justice than of being impeached, let alone convicted. In light of their immunity from prosecution as a matter of practice, what would prevent federal judges from giving in to the temptation of exercising abusively and for personal benefit their enormous judicial power over the life, liberty, and property of those appearing before, not to mention complaining against, them? Nothing!…

                   

 

     

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