By
Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, England
M.B.A., University of Michigan Business School
D.E.A., La Sorbonne, Paris
Judicial Discipline Reform
New York City
Dr.Richard.Cordero.Esq@cantab.net
CorderoRic@yahoo.com
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- Federal judges’ wrongdoing has been shown through the analysis of official statistics, reports, and statements[*>ii] in the study of the Federal Judiciary –whose procedural and evidentiary rules are followed by its state counterparts, for which it is the model– titled, Exposing Judges’ Unaccountability and Consequent Riskless Wrongdoing: Pioneering the news and publishing field of judicial unaccountability reporting(*>jur:1) The analysis highlights their means, motive, and opportunity(jur:21§§1-3) for judges’ wrongdoing.
*NOTE: See my study of the Federal Judiciary and its judges, the models for their state counterparts, titled:
Exposing Judges’ Unaccountability and Consequent Riskless Wrongdoing:
Pioneering the news and publishing field of judicial unaccountability reporting
* http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL/DrRCordero-Honest_Jud_Advocates.pdf
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- This article proposes its presentation in a documentary. It will emphasize its most outrageous and corruptive enabling circumstance: coordination(88§§a-c) among judges and between them and other insiders of the legal and bankruptcy systems[169], politicians(77§§5-6), and government entities(ol:19§D).
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- It will show that wrongdoing(jur:133§4) is not the deviant conduct of individual rogue judges, but rather collective conduct that is coordinated to ensure that doing wrong is safer, easier, and more beneficial. That encourages further wrongdoing.
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- So does a judge who keeps quiet about his peer’s wrongdoing, becoming accessory after the fact concerning it and before the fact concerning all future wrongdoing encouraged by the expectation of his silence. Such implicit coordination corrupts the judge and his peers, putting them ‘in the same boat’ of mutually dependent survival due to complicity: The judge is their accomplice before and after the fact and the peers are wrongdoing principals.
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- Coordination has allowed judges to develop the most harmful form of wrongdoing, i.e., schemes, such as a bankruptcy fraud scheme(jur:66§§2-3), a concealment of assets scheme[107ac, 213], and a docket clearing scheme(43§1). Coordination has made wrongdoing so widespread and routine that it is the Federal Judiciary’s institutionalized modus operandi(ol:190).
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- The documentary’ financial viability: its market is huge
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- Every year 50 million new cases are filed in the state and federal courts[4,5]. To them must be added scores of millions of pending cases. Given that every case involves at least two opposing parties, at least 100 million persons and entities go and are brought to court annually.
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- In fact, many more do so because a party can be composed of more than one person or entity; it can even be composed of a class of hundreds of thousands of persons similarly situated.
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- To the parties must be added all those persons and entities that are more or less directly affected by their litigation. These include friends, relatives, employees, buyers, suppliers, investors, creditors, debtors, shareholders, landlords, tenants, even the store on the corner, who may see its business diminished because a party and others affected by it can no longer afford to patronize its store, etc.
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- Two unique national stories to expose judges’ coordinated wrongdoing and provoke action-stirring outrage in the public during the long electoral season
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- All those persons and entities actually form the national public. The documentary can make that public aware of how it is affected by judges who abuse their power to make self-beneficial decisions that with disregard for due process of law dispose of litigants’ and non-litigants’ rights, property, liberty, and lives. Thus, it can provoke in the public action-stirring outrage(83§§2-3).
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- That is what two unique national stories(ol:55) can provoke. They can also expose top Democrat and Republican politicians[17a; jur:22¶31) who in their own interest and to the people’s detriment have allowed judges’ wrongdoing(5§3) to fester. These are the President Obama-Justice Sotomayor story –she was his first nominee to the Supreme Court– and the Federal Judiciary-NSA story.
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- A realistic plan of investigation(ol:66) based on numerous leads and reliable evidence[107a-c; jur:65§B) is available to pursue these stories through a Follow the money! investigation(ol:1) and a Follow it wirelessly! investigation(ol:19§D), respectively.
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- Such focused objective and advanced starting station facilitate the documentary’s production and reduce its cost and production lag.
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- A documentary that provides the dominant issue of the electoral season
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- The documentary can be produced in time to , and even provide the dominant issue of, the electoral season comprising the mid-term, primary, and 2016 presidential election campaigns. It can do so to a greater extent than Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, which earned over $200 million.
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- A documentary with apolitical, general public appeal
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- A documentary on judges’ wrongdoing will appeal to the national public regardless of any political affiliation or lack thereof, and independently of any or no intention to vote in any election.
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- Insatiable public demand for information about judges’ wrongdoing
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- Rather than exhaust its subject, the documentary will open the news and publishing field of judicial unaccountability reporting. It will cause the public to demand to be informed about:
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- judges’ motive, means, and opportunity to do wrong(21§§1-3);
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- explicit and implicit coordinated wrongdoing among judges and with others(88§§a-c); and
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- the extent, nature, and gravity of judges’ past and ongoing unaccountability and wrongdoing, e.g., “demeanor, abuse of power, bias, conflict of interest, bribery, incompetence”(10,11).
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- Meeting a low standard can cause high-level resignations & impeachments
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- To be effective, the documentary only has to show that judges have violated the injunction in their own Code of Conduct “to avoid even the appearance of impropriety”[123a]. Their “appearance” of lack of respect for legal and ethical provisions in their own conduct will detract from the required trust in their having respected them enough to apply them fairly and impartially to other people’s conduct.
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- This is reasonable and precedented: Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas was forced to resign in 1969 after Life magazine made his hold on office untenable by showing that he had engaged in financial improprieties, though they did not even amount to misdemeanors(92§d).
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- Thus, the documentary can cause a flood of motions to vacate judgments and hold new trials of cases argued to, or tried before, judges who appear to have committed improprieties. This flood and the chaos into which it will throw the Federal Judiciary –eventually having the same effect on the state judiciaries– will work as free advertisement for the documentary.
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- Launch a Watergate-like generalized media investigation of judges
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- The above developments will prompt ever more journalists and media outlets to jump on the investigative bandwagon of judges’ wrongdoing in coordination with other parties, lest their audience go elsewhere to satisfy their demand for news thereon.
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- Thereby the documentary will launch the first-ever, Watergate-like(4¶¶10-14) generalized media investigation of the Federal Judiciary. Such ever-expanding investigation will provide a constant reminder of the documentary as its starting point and continuing point of reference.
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- The journalists’ investigation can be guided by a query that already(id.) proved to be devastating and that can be adapted as follows; and by a related query that finds its foundation in current events:
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- The President Obama-Justice Sotomayor story and the Follow the money! investigation
What did the President know
about his first Supreme Court nominee, Then-Judge, Now-Justice Sotomayor, being involved in both concealing assets –which The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico(jur:65fn107a) suspected her of doing, and which is done to commit the crimes(ol:5fn10) of tax evasion(jur:65fn107c) and money laundering– and abusing the Federal Judiciary’s and/or the NSA’s computer network –see story ii. infra–; but did the President cover it up and lie to the American public by vouching for her honesty because he wanted to ingratiate himself with those petitioning him to nominate another woman and the first Hispanic to replace Retiring Justice Souter and from whom he expected in exchange support for the passage of the Obamacare bill in Congress; and if so,
when did he know it?
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- The Federal Judiciary-NSA story and the Follow it wirelessly! investigation
To what extent do federal judges abuse their vast computer network and expertise –which handle hundreds of millions of case files(`)– either alone or with the quid pro quo assistance of the NSA –up to 100% of whose secret requests for secret surveillance orders are rubberstamped(ol:5fn7) by the federal judges of the secret court established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)– both to conceal assets –a crime(ol:5fn10), unlike surveillance– by electronically transferring them between declared and hidden financial accounts(ol:1), and to cover up the judges’ wrongdoing by interfering with the communications –also a crime(ol:5a.fn13)– of would-be exposers and prevent them from joining forces to expose them; and if so, since when?(ol:69§C)
(See the statistical analysis supporting probable cause to believe that there has been communications interference(ol:19§Dfn2.))
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- The investigation guided by this query can generate distrust of top public officers and make improprieties –even criminal conduct[ol:7, 10]– appear that lead to their resignation or impeachment.
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- Public demand for official investigations by the authorities
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- The intensifying outrage will stir up the public to demand official investigations by Congress, DoJ-FBI, and an independent prosecutor. Their more intrusive powers to issue subpoena, search & seizure and contempt orders, indictments, to interrogate, place under oath, plea bargain, hold public hearings, etc., will allow them to make findings that will further outrage the public.
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- From an outraged public that demands reform to a civic movement
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- The stream of outrageous findings during the electoral season will stir up the public to demand that both incumbents commence and candidates pledge to undertake fundamental judicial reform(158§§6-7). This can turn judges’ wrongdoing into an issue that shapes or even dominates the campaigns because it concerns the practical meaning and safeguard of a tenet of our republic:
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- We the People, the only source of political power in ‘government of, by, and for the people’[172], are the masters who have hired public officers as servants, including judicial servants, to perform services in the People’s behalf.
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- We are entitled to subject them to ‘reverse surveillance’(ol:29) to obtain the information needed to dispel the secrecy(27§e) of their performance in order to hold them accountable and liable to the victims of their wrongdoing(160§8).
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- A documentary intent on causing the People to assert in practice this tenet can prompt the emergence of a civic movement(164§9) that demands a new We the People-government paradigm: the People’s Sunrise.
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- By empowering the People to reestablish themselves as the masters of government, the documentary will be endowed with unequaled moral force and inspire a sense of mission: To implement the principle that ‘in government, not of men, but by the rule of law’[ol:6], Nobody is Above the Law, and ensure that judges and politicians are committed to delivering Equal Justice Under Law.
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- An outraged public can force politicians to amend the Constitution
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- The documentary can show how the three branches of government have connived to participate in, or tolerate, judges’ trampling underfoot the rule of law to squeeze out for expediency and their benefit the strictures of due process and dish out its residue: the lees of justice.
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- Nothing can outrage the national public as a showing thereof. No force can more strongly push for such convention than an outraged national public. Hence, provoking such outrage can constitute the necessary means to convince the public of the need for a constitutional convention and the content of the amendments.
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- The national public has the unique power to punish politicians who are insensitive to its mood and demands by withholding donations, volunteered work, and word of mouth support, and issuing the threat of defeat at the polls. The precedent for such popular conduct is the Tea Party, a civic movement that forces politicians to support it or risk having their careers terminated.
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- However, before a constitutional convention is convened on the strength of the 34 states that have called for it[270>Ln:309], there must be exposed how those who claim the preeminent right to interpret the Constitution, federal judges, have become unaccountable in connivance with politicians and consequently, engage risklessly in self-beneficial coordinated wrongdoing by disregarding their duty, due process, and the rule of law to prey on We the People’s rights, property, and liberty.
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- Such exposure will make it possible to determine the full extent of the constitutional amendments needed to ensure that judges perform(Lsch:10¶6) transparently and are held accountable, disciplinable, and liable to compensate their victims by We the People.(jur:158§§6-8)
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- Joining forces to produce the documentary and become Champions of Justice
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- Thus, I encourage you, the Reader, and all other advocates of honest judiciaries to join forces to produce this documentary. By exposing judges’ wrongdoing in coordination with politicians and others, it can play a key role in the coming electoral season, lead to government reform, and earn us any of many material and moral rewards(ol:3§F), such as becoming recognized by a grateful People as their Champions of Justice.
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You may share and post this article widely. Meantime, I look forward to hearing from you.
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Dare trigger history!(jur:7§5)…and you may enter it.
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http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL/DrRCordero-Honest_Jud_Advocates.pdf >ol: 244; 240.
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Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.
Judicial Discipline Reform
New York City
Dr.Richard.Cordero.Esq@cantab.net
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* http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL/DrRCordero-Honest_Jud_Advocates.pdf
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