Showing posts with label United States Supreme Court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States Supreme Court. Show all posts

May 10, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court, State and Federal Judiciary Need Radical Reform

Madison, Wisconsin — If you ever have spoken with a mother of a wrongfully convicted victim, you know why you should work to free the innocent and condemn the judiciary.

Mothers are up against unyielding judges and prosecutors who operate in collusion with other politicians, against the innocent.

The judiciary branch at all levels of operation is often a black-robed bulwark against justice. All those wrongful convictions we hear about in the news?

These miscarriages of justice are presided over by judges, but it's taboo to point out that strutting judges have ruined lives, and that judges are catastrophically wrong in how they conducted themselves.

Judges, especially federal judges, are commonly absurd figures, yet unless you read Lara Bazelon (as one should), this reality of the judiciary is protected by professional taboo, cult command, corporate media and Democrats.

Richard Posner, public intellectual and former judge on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, upon his retirement, termed many federal judges, "reactionary beasts," manipulating statutes and the Constitution as they engineer desired results in federal litigation.

But even Posner shied away from a full-blooded critique for reasons unknown.

The United States Supreme Court is poised to launch a massive assault against liberty, and escalate judicial malice to a new level — the long-planned destruction of women's liberty, in accordance with the Catholic Church and other political actors.

This coming instantaneous ripping away of foundational rights is not inducing national Democratic Party voices to demand radical reform of the judiciary branch (Roe v. Wade, Politico, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization). Last year, at oral arguments in Dobbs, Democrats offered statements that they may be open to considering and looking at the issue of Court reform and not "doing nothing." Seriously, that's what Democrats had to say on the eve of the destruction of Roe, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

Rules of Professional Conduct of attorneys generally protect the judges' cult, and broadly forbid attorneys from pointing out intellectually dishonest operations of judges and other attorneys.

In fact, attorneys operate under an affirmative duty to "further the public's ... confidence in the rule of law and the justice system." Democrats in Congress and the presidency follow these taboo dictates, no matter the provocation.

Even when the justice system and its actors are dishonest and destructive. Can you imagine a member of Congress or a president demanding public confidence and respect, on the pain of contempt and imprisonment? Their popularity would tank immediately, and such officials would be suspected of having taken leave of their senses.

Not so the judiciary branch.

Writes Lara Bazelon in The Strand Magazine in June 2021:

Judges are the kings and queens of the legal system, literally looking at the populace they rule over from perches high up on a mahogany dais.  Referred to as 'Your Honor,' they demand constant verbal genuflection and scurrying about in response to their commands that is the equivalent of bowing and scraping.

'God save the United States and this Honorable Court!' the U.S. Marshal solemnly intones after the gavel comes down, a roomful of people stand up, and the nine justices of the Supreme Court enter the hallowed marble fiefdom where they preside.

In federal court, you don’t go anywhere or do anything without asking for permission.  'May it please the court?' 'May I approach?' 'May I confer with my client?' 'May I ask for a brief recess so that I can go to the bathroom and throw up because even though I am deathly ill you made me show up anyway?'

Judges are the closest thing that America has to royalty. Their power is enormous: what they do changes the courses of fortunes and lives.  They can award millions, even billions, they can send people to prison for the rest of their lives—or to their deaths. Often their decisions bind future generations. Because judges have so much power and responsibility, we assume they are eminently deserving of the honor and authority conferred upon them.
As the Dobbs leak shows, the judiciary does not function in an intellectually honest, apolitical fashion objectively finding facts, doctrine and application of law like detached agents of pure epistemology, hard science enforced by tyrannical control of courtrooms and taboo rules against public criticism.

Judges act as black-robed kobolds, diminutive "goblin-like creatures with short-tempers and a mischievous spirit."

Congress needs to begin reform of the judiciary that will include mandates that every oral argument, judicial memo and correspondence be revealed to the American people in as close to real-time as possible.

Judges cannot be trusted with the honor and authority conferred upon them.

The institutional narcissism and unparalleled arrogance of the judicial branch, working for totalitarian movements, needs to come to an end.

Feb 26, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson's Fraternal Order of Police Endorsement Is Blacked-out

Joe Biden is flanked by woke corporatists as he hypes endorsement
of hate group, Fraternal Order of Police.
Pres Joe Biden hyped the endorsement of a rightwing hate group, the Fraternal Order of Police, in the roll-out of the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as Assoc Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

But this strange communion with a hate group has been blacked-out by every, single elected Democrat and the liberal media.

The uniformity of silence is scary to those who find police violence and its defenders unsettling.

The Biden screw-up should have elicited outrage.

Afterall, the Fraternal Order of Police has openly promoted hate towards Black Lives Matter in Philly, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, the whole country.

Instead, the woke crowd and the media propaganda apparatus falls in line, pretending the Fraternal Order of Police endorsement didn't happen, and that Biden did not really cite this endorsement, and only this group endorsement, yesterday.

Joe Biden is the architect of more cops, inhuman drug wars, against decriminalization of pot, and no Democrat dares to ask why this character picked Ketanji Brown Jackson as nominee. 

Biden was an indecent zealot for mass incarceration and no Democrat asks, why Brown Jackson.

Now, we know. Biden and the Fraternal Order of Police, as the leading drug war scumbags, want to continue the American police prison state.

Brown Jackson is a Democrat careerist, and her values are not for civil liberties and human rights. She will promote the Biden's retrograde jurisprudence and make judicial policy, in accordance with imprisoning as many people as possible.

To Biden and the Democrats, mired in the fatuous woke religion, only Jackson's skin color matters, as a selling tool.

The Fraternal Order of Police endorsement is a forbidden subject.

Ketanji Brown Jackson is no progressive, she is a woke corporatist, and she will screw the American people first chance she gets.

Feb 25, 2022

Biden Cites Fraternal Order of Police, Law Enforcement and W. Bush to Establish Bona Fides of Court Nominee

Stealth Cop Nominee in Black Face

Updated - The jailer-in-chief Joe Biden did not disappoint today.

Biden cited the rightwing, hate group, Fraternal Order of Police favorably! The Fraternal Order of Police!

Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Those wondering why Ketanji Brown Jackson got their answer.

Biden cited the endorsements by the Fraternal Order of Police, law enforcement and George W. Bush as evidence Brown Jackson is worthy of confirmation. See also Trump's Talk with Police Group Is Fascism Incarnate.

Biden cited no other group's endorsement of Brown Jackson today, delivering a signal she is a cop lover behind her black face.

All woke politics all the time. 

But what stands out today is Biden touting law enforcement, including an actual hate group, almost as often as the fact Brown Jackson is "Black" with a literal capital B. See White House.


Paul Ryan Cheerleaded Ketanji Brown Jackson as Federal Appellate Court Nominee in 2012

U.S. Senate Republicans are calling for confirmation hearings today, while Democrats want ratification and consent now for Ketanji Brown Jackson because the Supreme Court nominee is black, and is a woman.

The White House is so enthralled with the nominee's skin color, today's press release capitalizes, "Black," as in, "If confirmed, she will be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court."

Wow, she must really be Black?

Well, all black people and all woman are represented now because Brown Jackson has black skin and is a woman, right?

Wrong, but Biden wants loyalty and skin color, with a bit of meaningless genetics thrown in.

"I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a Black woman on the Supreme Court to make sure we in fact get everyone represented," said dopey Joe Biden at a debate before South Carolina's Democrat Party primary in Feb. 2020.

There was a time when character and commitment mattered, but those days are gone.

Biden's racist and sexist past and this ridiculous nominee of genetics are now presented to the American people, with the small matter of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary confirmation hearings brushed aside.

Identity politics Democrats are hyping Paul Ryan's 2012 support for Ketanji Brown Jackson for federal appellate judge.

"Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, for her integrity is unequivocal. She’s an amazing person, and I favorably recommend her consideration," said Ryan at the December 2012 United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing.

To succeed in Democrat Party politics, all you really need is skin color and some other basis to establish identity bone fides.

Ask Biden, and all of the Democrats demanding a coronation based on skin color and sex.

Ask questions, and you engage in "
baseless and racist attacks," says Elie Mystal.

Ketanji Brown Jackson ain't no William O. Douglas. But that's not what's important in Democrat politics.

Feb 5, 2022

On Biden SCOTUS Nominee, A Black Mass Is Coming

In coming months, Joe Biden will nominate a new justice to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Few anticipate lofty consideration from the Biden White House, or meaningful United States Senate deliberation to fill this Court vacancy, as another American institution plummets to the level of Saudi Arabian police squads or Israeli prison guards.

So, the nomination and confirmation will be an ornate charade performed in the U.S. Capitol Building, from whence CNN and MSNBC will intone on its importance in the affirmation of democratic processes.

But the confirmation fight will not be the stuff of 1987 Robert Bork nomination battles, and citizens pressuring Senate votes against a nominee out of step on civil liberties, labor rights and the environment.

Most Americans have these concerns, but today's Democratic Party is the Bork Party of corporatists and police, with a stilted concern on the right to choose, unless choice causes contemplation on changing the Court, or conflicts with identity politics.

The 2022 Court nomination and confirmation will still be Summer fun, but the type of fun my wife has when she endures watching the Super Bowl. She's more interested in the half-time show and commercials than the game itself.

A Democratic Party that somehow manages to make voting rights seem a distraction will, without question, manage to make a sacred nomination and confirmation process a defiled and fetid affair, as black identity politics rears its head.

That the confirmation fight will occur in an architectural marvel such as the U.S. Capitol seems in a visceral way another comic episode of Veep as the Senate Chambers — that should cause anyone setting foot to soar as history and the people are foisted on the soul — becomes a pit of cynicism and malice.

Already, the person of Rep. James Clyburn (Black-South Carolina) is assuring the White House that a blackish voice is needed, one Judge J. Michelle Childs, "who previously worked as a management-side lawyer," notes In These Times, and a 'throw them in prison' Democrat in rulings commonly overturned on appeal (The American Prospect).

Clyburn is the same boss who guided the architects of prison-state America, Hillary Clinton and Biden, to Democratic Primary victories. Good thing for Clyburn the 13th Amendment has that "punishment for crime" clause because Clyburn would not have a career without it.

As class politics and concern for working families are betrayed again, a new black face assures, everything is just fine.

Come Summer, witness the Capitol edifice touching the soul and refining it, as identity politics grind hope and humanism into musty dust.

You want to know how black identity politics will work with the Biden vow to nominate a black woman to the Court? See below:

Jul 6, 2018

Trump's 'Make America Great Again' Call Is Normalized

DeForest, Wisconsin Police Chief Daniel Furseth is
a racist cop and noted scum-bag who rose through the
ranks of the DeForest Police Dept where racism
opens doors to white cop careers.
Donald Trump's work against American society alarms most everybody outside the Republican Party coalition as this lunatic has united the right under a call for the restoration of America.

The GOP's agitprop operation lends coherence and inspiring myths for generations of American whites who have divined anew the alleged evils of alien forces — the universities, the cities, enclaves of immigrants and Muslims, the lying press-fake news and identifiable blackish folks carrying on in public as they breathe and laugh.

A racist DeForest, Wisconsin, (a few miles north of Madison), Police Chief Daniel Furseth mocked and ridiculed a group of young black folks who simply gathered together to dine at a local Steak ‘N Shake restaurant.

A police intern came in possession of the video, (made in 2007), and bore witness to the vile, casual racism of DeForest, Wisconsin.

The racist cop Furseth spoke in a mocking accent on the video, mimicking the young group in what is supposed to be a faux, black English vernacular:

'Ok, we is out on our dates. We got the bitches, we gonna get them, and we gonna give them food. I got my cane, I’ve gots (sic) my suit,. Oh baby … Ok boys, let’s go in. This is the (fanciest) restaurant we ever been to and it’s called the Steak ‘N Shake.'

'Unbelievable,' Furseth continues, dropping the accent. ...

Furseth is typical of white cops in Wisconsin, and a plurality of white Wisconsinites who voted Trump into office.

Furseth accepted a severance package from DeForest in late June, (Phillips, Wisconsin State Journal), but the racist culture remains. Furseth rose through the ranks of the DeForest Police Dept not in spite of his racism, but because of his racism.

Wonder how a Evangelical troll like Scott Walker gets elected. Walker, like former Gov. Tommy Thompson, appeals to racism and that's an imposing base in Wisconsin.

To Wisconsin whites, the mere sight of black people in public is per force a problem requiring an armed response and constant police vigilance.

Trump's racist tropes trace directly back to the propaganda of 20th-century totalitarian terror states.

  • The Soviet Union, the reactionary dungeon state that targeted, for example, everything from Noam Chomsky's cognitive psychology to anything American or libertarian, including any thinker who dared propose liberty, peace and humanity as the basis for a society vis a vis the USSR, (IndyMedia, CIA)
  • NAZI Germany promising a return to traditional values and law and order against alien influences, (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Trump's Make America Great Again appeals enjoy only a plurality of support among the population.

Ruling with minority support is a strategic project of the Republican Party. There is no apparent bottom to what Trump and the Republican Party will do to destroy political opposition to Trump by the American people.

For starters, the United States Senate should be shut down next week unless Sen. McConnell agrees to deferring the Supreme Court hearing and vote until the next Congress in 2019.

Jun 25, 2018

Making a Murderer Victim Is Denied Hearing from United States Supreme Court

The United States Supreme Court denies the petition of
Brandan Dassey, an innocent who will remain in prison for
life. Case is highlighted at the bottom of above Court image.

Wisconsin Republicans lead defense for wrongful convictions such as Dassey's

The United States Supreme Court will not hear the case of Brendan Dassay, who was coerced as a 16-year-old into uttering a false confession that is featured in the 2015 Making a Murderer documentaries.

The so-called confession is the sole basis for the conviction of Dassey. The interrogation was conducted by demonstrably corrupt and dishonest investigators who promised Dassey that he could go back to his high-school class if he could just clear up a question. This led to Dassey’s conviction in the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach.

Writes atty Jerome Buting in May:

The Court refused to grant cert in Dassey's petition, and its refusal came with a simple list of cases denied, a quiet snuffing out of a man's life, (highlighted at bottom of image, at right).

Wisconsin law enforcement, as with the rest of the nation, attracts Republicans and criminal personality types for whom prosecuting and imprisoning innocent people is seen a means to establish careers and gratifying a need to harm people.

The United States Supreme Court denies the petition of
Brandan Dassey, an innocent who will remain in prison for
life. Case is highlighted at the bottom of above Court image.

The Dassey case is featured along with another wrongful prosecution, Steven Avery, in the Making a Murderer series.

Len Kachinsky, Dassey's attorney, threw Dassey, a cognitively challenged 16-year-old, to two criminal investigators, Mark Wiegert, (sergeant at the Calumet County Sheriff's Office), and Tom Fassbender (Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation investigator), who in 2005 weren't looking for the truth but trying to get Dassey to mutter words portrayed as admissions of guilt and supporting a lurid, contrived tale of guilt of Avery in the revenge prosecution (Ferek, Appleton Post-Crescent).

Wiegert, Fassbender and former District Attorney and sex offender Ken Kratz contrived a case against two men whom they knew to be innocent.

Republican-led state police organizations in 2008 awarded Wiegert and Fassbender actual awards for their work in railroading innocent people.

As noted here previously, in America there exists a hostile and deceitful domestic police force, a careerist, conviction-at-any-costs prosecutorial ethos, racism and taboo ethics in the criminal justice system, and a commitment of district attorneys to defend wrongful convictions irrespective of truth or any consideration of justice present conditions perfect for mass incarceration constituting a "leviathan unmatched in human history," (Glenn C. Loury, Boston Review).

We're there, people.

Consider if your daughter, brother, father or mother were wrongfully convicted. Who stands with you then?

Think it could not happen to you? It happened to Penny Brummer in 1994, a young military veteran wrongfully convicted by a Dane County jury because in part she is an out lesbian.

Ask the family of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska, 1968-2009) (1923-2010), (Cary, Rollcall). The reader will have a full-blooded understanding of a Brady violation.

Ask the mother of Madison, Wisconsin's Penny Brummer: Interrogated, defamed, arrested, convicted and sentenced to what amounts to a life sentence.

Contrary to popular wisdom we live in a land of the Sovereign (the people of the state and not the law) and bad faith and deceit on the part of law enforcement are a huge part of the problem.

I'm thankful for the Richard Posners, the Sidney Powells (there is a force of nature), and the Alex Kozinski for shining lights on not a democracy, but a brutal prison state. And am always mindful of I.F. Stone's admonition: "Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed." First read this quote in 1985 on a large poster that used to occupy a prominent place of the late Erwin Knoll's (NYT) wall at the Progressive Magazine, a journal carrying out this legacy and reporting the truth to this day.

The only route for Dassey now is a pardon from a new Wisconsin governor if one is elected in November. It's a long shot.