How advocates of honest judiciaries can network, particularly with politicians

http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL/DrRCordero-Honest_Jud_Advocates.pdf >ol: 231

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, Dr.Richard.Cordero.Esq@outlook.com, RicCordero@verizon.net

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  1. Networking for reform to meet the need for avowed and unwitting allies
  2. Networking is essential to the work of advocates of honest judiciaries of exposing judges’ wrongdoing and advocating judicial reform. We need to network in order to win over allies and people that will advance our objectives even if they do so only in the interest of advancing their own. The applicable principle of strategic thinking(* >Lsch:14§3; ol:52§C; jur:xliv¶C) is “The friend of my friend is my friend” (see also “The enemy of my enemy is my friend, ol:197¶¶37,38).

 

  1. The networking target may have objectives that are ‘friendly’ to –that is, harmonious with(* >ol:52§C, Lsch:14§2; dcc:8¶11)– our own objectives of exposing judges wrongdoing and advocating reform (see also the analysis of conflicting interests, id.). Hence, we, advocates of honest judiciaries, want to treat them as our friends and give them the information that we have gathered so that they can use it to advance those ‘friendly’ objectives of theirs. That is particularly the case of politicians and journalists.

 

* Note: All (blue text references) are keyed to the study of institutionalized wrongdoing in the Federal Judiciary and its coordination among its judges titled:

 

Exposing Judges’ Unaccountability and Consequent Riskless Wrongdoing:

Pioneering the news and publishing field of judicial unaccountability reporting(* >jur:1)

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  1. The evidence and opportunity that we offer politicians
  2. It is true that politicians are the very ones who recommended, nominated, and confirmed judicial candidates and who now protect “their men and women on the bench” by holding them unaccountable(ol:190¶¶1-7). However, now that the presidential election campaign dominates national politics, politicians’ first priority is to obtain donations, volunteered work, word of mouth support, and straw poll votes. Worrying about judges can only be a secondary consideration.

 

  1. The untapped voting bloc of victims of wrongdoing judges
  2. We want to make politicians aware that there is a vast untapped bloc of voters out there: victims of wrongdoing judges among the 100 million parties to the 50 million new cases filed in the state and federal courts annually(jur:8fn4,5). Those figures do not begin to count the victims among the parties to pending cases and cases decided wrongfully by judges doing wrong in their own and their peers’ and cronies’ interest. Those victims are waiting for a champion to fight for them.

 

  1. This opens an opportunity for politicians, who during the presidential election campaign need to appear sensitive to the public’s mood and demands. That mood is outrage at judges’ wrongdoing. The demand is for politicians to investigate judges officially and hold nationally televised hearings where they take testimony from the public and question judges under oath.

 

  1. To Republican politicians in their races against Democrats
  2. To Republicans, you offer evidence that they can use to expose how Democratic politicians, in general, and President Obama, in particular, lied to the American people in their own personal and political interest about the honesty of Then-Judge Sotomayor when they recommended, nominated, and confirmed her to become a Supreme Court justice(next; ol:191§§A,E).

 

  1. To Democratic politicians fighting for their Senate leadership
  2. To Democratic politicians, you offer the same evidence but highlight how it can be useful for their fight for their leadership in the Senate now that Minority Leader Harry Reid has announced that he will not run for reelection and has indicated his desire that Chuck Schumer, the senior senator from NY, be his successor.

 

  1. Sen. Schumer was one of the key recommenders of Then-Judge Sotomayor to become President Obama’s first justiceship nominee as replacement of Retiring J. Souter. Together with his protégée and junior senator from NY, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, he shepherded Nominee Sotomayor through the Senate confirmation process(jur:78§6).

 

  1. All the senators and other people who do not want Senator Schumer as the next Democratic leader in the Senate and those senators who want that job for themselves or for their friends can use the information of how Sen. Schumer knew that The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Politico(jur:65fn107a) had suspected Then-Judge Sotomayor of concealment of assets; and how the FBI vetting report on her contained compromising information about her integrity that would have derailed her confirmation if published(jur:65fn107c).

 

  1. Assets are concealed to evade taxes, launder money with dirty origin, and exclude them from marital and inheritance distribution.

 

  1. Yet, he as well as the President and Sen. Gillibrand disregarded that information, vouched for Nominee Sotomayor’s integrity, and worked to confirm her as a justice of the Supreme Court. Thereby they all saddled this country for the next 30 years or so that she may serve on the highest court of the land with a dishonest and hypocritical person who forces the law upon others while she breaks it in her own interest and that of her peers(jur:65§§1-3).

 

  1. How many other justices and judges engage in the same, similar, and other types of wrongdoing under the cover that they provide each other? Thus, the further(ol:194§E) investigation of J. Sotomayor is a Trojan horse into wrongdoing among federal judges that is so routine, widespread, and coordinated as to be the institutionalized modus operandi of them and the Federal Judiciary.

 

  1. Advocates can bring to the attention of politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, the P. Obama-J. Sotomayor query(ol:191§A) for further investigation by law enforcement authorities and congressional committees(ol:201§J; cf. the Federal Judiciary-NSA query, ol:192§B).

 

  1. Journalists to pursue a story that can dominate the election campaign

 

  1. The P. Obama-J. Sotomayor query(ol:191§A) can also guide journalists in their investigation of a unique national story (as can the Federal Judiciary-NSA query, ol:192§B). Networking with journalists is indispensable for exposing judges’ wrongdoing and advocating reform(ol:199¶43).

 

  1. What advocates can offer journalists is a story with the potential to make them a national name and advance their careers(ol:199§1): They can become this generation’s Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein(jur:4¶¶10-14). Thanks to their highly professional investigation of the Watergate scandal, they contributed significantly to the resignation of President Nixon on August 8, 1974, and the imprisonment of all his White House aides. Since then they are icons of investigative journalism.

 

  1. Woodward and Bernstein were played in the blockbuster movie All the President’s Men by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. By whom would journalists like to be played today if they were instrumental in exposing judges’ wrongdoing that caused the resignation of Justice Sotomayor and other federal justices and judges? There is precedent for it: the resignation of Justice Abe Fortas on May 14, 1969, after Life magazine revealed his financial improprieties(jur:92§d).

 

  1. Nothing will energize the further investigation of wrongdoing by both federal and state judges as the resignation of a Supreme Court justice who failed to “avoid even the appearance of impropriety”(ol:196§6). That is the fairly low standard that can easily be met for the investigation to have far-reaching consequences. That is why advocates want to set in motion a Watergate-like generalized and first-ever media investigation of the Federal Judiciary and its judges(ol:200§I).

 

  1. The requirements of networking effectively
  2. Networking takes more than just sending yet another email, which may not even be opened because it is bobbing up and down in the incessant flow of junk emails that inundate our email boxes every day. That is an inefficient, trust-to-luck way of networking (as opposed to implementing the inform and outrage strategy: informing the national public by mass emailing it of judges’ wrongdoing and so outraging it at them as to stir it up to force politicians to investigate them(ol:219§B)).

 

  1. Politicians do not even accept an email that one tries to send them through their website if one cannot state that one resides in their jurisdictional territory.

 

  1. Knowledge is Power: learning the facts is the foundation of networking
  2. Networking begins well before networking advocates contact the networking target. The first step is learning the facts so that advocates can identify the ‘friendly’ or harmonious interests that they and the target have. Knowing those interests is the foundation for thinking strategically (ol:197§1). That is the process through which advocates determine with whom they can network and on what grounds.

 

  1. Once they knows the facts about the target, they need to understand the circumstances surrounding(ol:196§F) him or her so as to detect opportunities and obstacles.

 

  1. With that knowledge, advocates can craft the strategy(ol:193§D) to present to the target on how both can advance their respective interests with mutually beneficial effects(ol:199§2). That includes a plan for taking concrete, realistic, and feasible action on the information presented.

 

  1. Knowledge also allows advocates to handle effectively the target’s counter-arguments. That is another way for them to show the target that they know what they are talking about and should be taken seriously.

 

  1. Thus, before advocates begin networking, it is crucial that they learn how judges’ wrongdoing manifest itself(ol:190¶¶1-7), its deteriorating impact on their moral fiber(jur: 50§b), and the injury in fact that it causes other people(jur:42§6). To that end, advocates can read the article(ol:190) that summarizes this study(jur:1) of judges’ wrongdoing and its(references).

 

  1. For instance, not all wrongdoing judges actively do wrong as principals. They also do wrong as accessories after the fact by even keeping silent about the principals’ wrongdoing, thus failing their duty(ol:160§B) to denounce it to maintain the integrity of the judiciary and judicial process. By condoning their past wrongdoing, they encourage both principals to do more wrong and others to begin doing wrong, whereby they become accessories before the fact(jur:88§§a-c).

 

  1. Those who want to effectively network cannot avoid doing their homework…because Knowledge is Power.

 

  1. Contacting the network target in a professional way

 

  1. If advocates do not know their target, they should first send him or her a professionally crafted letter that offers something of value –the opposite of begging for help-, with facts, sound reasoning, plenty of common sense, superior grammar, no typos, correct punctuation, adequate layout, etc.(e.g., to journalists: ol:176, 185, 186, 215, 223; to politicians: jur:ii; to others: ol:197¶¶39,41)

 

  1. Advocates may print any of the articles herein and attach it to their letter(ol:146, 185, 219, 224).

 

  1. The most effective way for advocates to network with friends or acquaintances is in person. If they cannot meet them, they should phone them to discuss the networking grounds and what each stands to gain from jointly advancing their respective interests(networking topics, ol:198§b).

 

  1. If you successfully practice networking for judicial exposure and reform, then as people make up their minds during the long presidential race who and what will advance their and our country’s interest in honest judiciaries, they may nationally recognize you as one of We the People’s Champions of Justice(ol:201§K; on Dr. Cordero’s offer to make presentations, ol:225§D).

 

I look forward to hearing from you. Meantime, kindly acknowledge receipt of this email.

 

I encourage you to share and post this email widely.

 

Dare trigger history!(jur:7§5)…and you may enter it.

 

Sincerely,

 

Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.

Judicial Discipline Reform

New York City

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Watch the interview with Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq., by Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd, on the issue of exposing judges’ wrongdoing and bringing about judicial reform, at:

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Dr. Cordero: U.S. Judiciary goes Rogue – 99.82% complaints vs. Judges are dismissed; U.S. Justice Sonia Sotomayor hides assets with impunity.

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Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.

Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq., is a doctor of law and researcher-writer attorney. He is a member of the New York State Bar and lives in New York City. He earned his doctorate of law from the University of Cambridge in England, where his thesis dealt with the integration of the banking industry in the European Union. He earned a French law degree from La Sorbonne in Paris, where he concentrated on currency stability and the abuse of dominant positions by entities in commerce, similar to American antitrust law. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, where he concentrated on the use of computers and their networks to maximize workflow efficiency and productivity. Dr. Cordero worked as a researcher-writer at the preeminent publisher of analytical legal commentaries, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, a member of West/Thomson Reuters. There he wrote commentaries on the regulation of financial activities under federal law. Currently at Judicial Discipline Reform, he is promoting the creation of a multidisciplinary academic and business team to advocate judges’ accountability and discipline reform. The need for such reform is based on his analysis of official statistics, reports, and statements of the Federal Judiciary and its judges, who are the models for their state counterparts. That analysis is set forth in his study of the Federal Judiciary and its judges, the models for their state counterparts: 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 Dr. Cordero offers to make a presentation at a video conference or in person to you and your colleagues of the evidence of judicial wrongdoing so that you may learn how to join the effort to expose it and bring about judicial reform. Contact him at Dr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@verizon.net. Dare trigger history!(* >jur:7§5)…and you may enter it. * http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL/DrRCordero-Honest_Jud_Advocates.pdf

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