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Pitching ascoop
on exposing Attorney General nominee Judge Merrick Garland’s cover-up of
judges’ interception of emails and mail; financial fraud;
dismissal of 100% of complaints against him and his fellow judges; etc.; and
demanding the release of the FBI’s secret judicial vetting reports
as President Biden forms his commission to reform the judicial system
Setting inmotion a generalized media investigation into the judiciary
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL2/DrRCordero_media_exposing_judges.pdf
By
Dr. RichardCordero, 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
http://www.Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org
Dr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@xxxxxxxxxxx , DrRCordero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
, CorderoRic@xxxxxxxxx Senior editor Joe Patrice
Above the Law
Co-host of Thinking Like a Lawyer
joepatrice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dear Mr. Patrice, editors, journalists,and
Advocates of Honest Judiciaries, I read with interest yourarticle, Mr.
Patrice, Favorite Stories Of 2020: Corruption, Courts,…, published by Abovethe
Law on December 28,2020.
A. Charting a future for yourself and yourpublication with a scoop on judges’
abuse of power and crimes
1. One of your 10 favorite stories “discusses the role theChief Justice could
have played (and might still play) in charting the futureof the Supreme Court”.
2. Your story opens the way to discussing therole that a legal news editor
like you and a publication like Above the Law “might still have” byscooping the
proposedexposure by U.S.Judge Robert Pratt of the Southern District of Iowa
andAssociated Press reporter Ryan Foley of federal judges’ crimes as opposed
toTrump’s, to which Judge Pratt referred. 3. It can reasonably be expected
that thescoop would ‘play a role in charting the future’ of not merely the
SupremeCourt, but rather of the system of justice: It can significantly
influence the compositionand agenda of the commission for the reform of the
system of justice that Then-presidentialcandidate Joe Biden, while interviewing
with CBS newsanchor Norah O’Donnell onOctober 22, 2020, announced that he would
form if he became president. 4. The articles discussed and mentionedherein
deal with federal judges. However, those judges are themodels of their state
counterparts. So, what the former allow themselves to do,the latter copy
gleefully and add to it shamelessly. On state judges’ abuse ofpower and crimes,
see:
a. ThomsonReuters, a major news organization with more than 2,500reporters and
over 600 photojournalists, published the first of its three-part report“The
Teflon Robe”, which found “hardwiredjudicial corruption”, on June 30, 2020;
b. Boston Globe, the mainnewspaper in Massachusetts and a reputable one,
published on September 30,2018, its report “Inside our secret courts”, in whose
“private criminal hearings[conducted even by clerks with no law degree], who
you are –and who you know– may be just as important asright and wrong”.
1. Judges’ interception of people’s emails and mail
5. In this vein, consider the publicationof an initial article on
theinterception by federal judges of people’s emails and mail to detect
andsuppress those of their critics and thereby cover up their crimes and
otherforms of abuse of power and disregard for ethical standards. 6. The
exposure of such interception byjudges will cause national outrage because it
affects the national public and deprivesAmericans of their most cherished
rights, namely, thoseguaranteed by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution to
“freedom of speech, of thepress, the right of the people peaceably to assemble
[through the Internet and on social mediatoo], and topetition the Government
[ofwhich judges are the third branch]for a redress of grievances [including
compensation of abusees byjudges and their judiciaries]”.
2. Judges’ dismissal of 100% of complaints against them
7. This is the subject of the article outlinedbelow,whose point of departure
is the statement by Judge Pratt made in an interviewwith Associated Press
reporter Foley, who quoted him in his article “Federal judge in Iowaridicules
Trump's pardons”, publishedon December 30, 2020. 8. My article asksboth Judge
Pratt ( https://www.iasd.uscourts.gov/contact ) and reporter Foley (
joepatrice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to denounce federal judges’ preemptivereciprocal
‘pardons’: They dismiss 100% of complaints filed against them under the
Judicial Conduct and Disability Act (the Act; 28 U.S. Code §§351-364), and deny
100% of petitions to review those dismissals. 9. Judges granttheir pardons
before there has been any investigation of the complained-aboutjudge, never
mind a trial and a criminal conviction or even a finding of civilliability.
That is how judges self-ensure their unaccountability, thus openingthe way to
their riskless commission of “bad Behaviour” (Constitution,Article III, Section
1), i.e., crimes, abuses of power, unethical conduct, andother “improprieties
and even the appearanceof impropriety” prohibited by Canon 2 of the Codeof
Conduct for U.S. Judges. 10. By comparison with Trump’s pardons of his cronies
andfamily, federal judges’ preemptive reciprocal pardons are so much more
harmful to theintegrity of the judicial system and the national public subject
to their nationaljurisdiction. Their denunciation by Judge Pratt and reporter
Foley –and yourstoo- can be similar to Emile Zola’s famous “Iaccuse!” open
letter to the President of the French Republic to denounce ananti-Semitic
conspiracy of the military against Lt. Alfred Dreyfus.
3. The vetting and disqualifying of attorney general nominee JudgeMerrick
Garland
11. Another article candeal with the nomination by President-elect Biden of
Judge Merrick Garland tobe the next attorney general: 12. The
officialstatistics of JudgeGarland’s court, to wit, the Court of Appeals for
theDistrict of Columbia Circuit (DCC), show that he participated in the
dismissalof 100% of the 478 complaints about him and his peers, colleagues, and
friends inDCC, and the denial of 100% of the petitions to review of such
dismissalsduring at least the 1oct06-30sep17 11-year period. 13. By so doing,
he too arrogated to himself -and during histenure as chief circuit judge even
led his peers and colleagues in arrogatingto themselves- the power to abrogate
in effect the Act with reckless disregardfor the detriment to complainants and
the rest of the public left uncompensatedand at the mercy of unaccountable
judges risklessly committing “bad Behaviour”. 14. It follows that Judge
Garland has a conflict of interests thatprevents him from being an impartial
and fair attorney general, much less aneffective and honest overseer or even
member of the yet-to-be-formed Biden commission to reform the judicial system:
15. If as attorney general Judge Garland allowed the investigationof
complaints against judges filed with the Department of Justice Office of
ProfessionalResponsibility or brought to the attention of the Biden commission,
he wouldend up incriminated for both his abrogation in effect of the Act and
hiscover-up of the “badBehaviour” underlying the complaints and committed for
his own and theother judges’ gain and convenience. 16. To survive, Judge
Garland must ‘pardon’ himself and his peersand colleagues, thus making all of
them yet another time Judges Above the Law,the harm to the system of justice
and Wethe People notwithstanding. Preventing Judge Garland's self-pardon calls
for a generalized media investigation into his and his fellow judge' “bad
Behaviour”.
4. The demand for the release of the FBI judicial vetting reports
17. The above article can set in motion a generalized mediainvestigation of
both Judge Garland and federal judges because “scandal sells”. 18. Moreover,
it can provide the basis for you and the rest of themedia to make a bold demand
for President-elect Biden to prove that hisprofessed interest in judicial
reform is expressed in good faith that has nofear of, and is pursued through,
transparency and Equal exposure to investigation Under Law: 19. Demand that
Then-President Biden and even President Trumprelease all the secret FBI vetting
reports on judicial candidates and nominees,which contain information obtained
by the FBI exercising its power of subpoena, searchand seizure, and contempt,
which the media lack. 20. The release of those secret reports will show the
unfitnessfor office of many justicesand judges due to their “badBehaviour”
before they began their service; and the connivance between thepoliticians and
the candidates whom they recommend, endorse, nominate, and confirm for
judgeships and justiceships, and thereafter protect as ‘our men and women on
the bench’ no matter what theydo, are complained about doing, or the harm that
they cause the public. 21. Judges who break the law for their personal and
collectivegain and convenience have no qualms about breaking it for their
friends or fortheir biases. “Power corrupts and”when it can be exercised
risklessly for any reason and no reason it becomes “absolute power[, which]
corrupts absolutely”. 22. Let President-elect Biden show that he honestly
believes inthe tenet inscribed on the outside wall of the building housing the
Office of PublicResponsibility: Justice in the life and conduct of thestate
is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
23. Does justice reside in President-elect Biden’s heart and soul?If so, he
must show it by the concrete and visible act of opening the secretFBI reports
on judicial candidates and nominees so that transparency bringsforth truth,
which is indispensable for doing justice. 24. If not, let him publicly admit
that in his heart and soulthere is a secret place for protecting his own
interest, not in ‘the Blessingssecured for We the People throughFreedom from
Injustice’ (Constitution, Preamble), but rather in implementinghis agenda by
not antagonizing the judges. The latter can breach their oath of office (28
U.S.C.§453) ‘to uphold the Constitutionand the laws thereunder’ and disregard
the will of voters to retaliate in theirself-interest against him by holding
the laws implementing his agendaunconstitutional or reading them so narrowly
and hindering them with so manyrestrictions that they are rendered ineffective.
5. Thinking strategicallyto cause judicial resignations, pack the Judiciary,
and secure the agenda, judicialreform, and legacy
25. Then-President Biden can release the secret FBI reports andencourage the
official and media investigation of judges. The findings ofunaccountable judges
risklessly committing crimes and abuse of power as theirinstitutionalized modus
operandi will so intensely outrage the national publicand deprive judges of so
much public trust as to force them to resignindividually and even collectively.
26. There is precedent for this in:
a. Justice Abe Fortas, who resigned from the U.S.Supreme Court on May 14, 1969,
for ‘improprieties’ in taking outside sourcemoney and benefiting from relations
with a former client;
b. Former Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski,who resigned on December 18,
2017, to avoid an investigation of sexualharassment referred to the Second
Circuit by Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr.;and
c. Circuit Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, the sisterof President Donald Trump, who
resigned on February 11, 2019, upon learning 10days earlier that she was being
investigated for her participation in her father’sdistribution of his assets to
his children through a fraud scheme involvingshell companies to evade
inheritance tax.
27. Hence, the resignations can begin with one justice, severalof them, or
even the whole Supreme Court for the crimes andabuse that they committed as
lower court judges and are committing now asprincipals; and the crimes and
abuse of current lower court judges and offormer peers that they are covering
up as circuit justices (28 U.S.C. §42) allotted assupervisors to the several
circuits. This will shake trust in the FederalJudiciary so profoundly that the
public could demand its replacement. 28. As a result, the unimaginable could
happen: President Bidencould not only “pack theCourt”, but rather pack the
whole Judiciary, thereby not only ensuringthat his agenda is upheld by the
judges that he nominates, but more importantly,also establishing a
long-standing basis for his legacy. 29. President Biden could even push
through constitutionalamendments that recognize the role that Wethe People, the
masters of all public servants, must have in holding evenjudicial public
servants accountable for their performance and liable to compensatethe victims
of their abuse so that they can protect themselves from politiciansand their
appointed judges conniving to grab gain and convenience at theexpense of the
system of justice and thePeople.
B. The foundation of the articles in astudy and a website
30. The articles pitched above are available for review by you,and I can
shorten, split, update, and otherwise edit them as required. 31. But time is
of the essence, for they should be publishedbefore President-elect Biden forms
the commission and Judge Garland is vettedand confirmed by the Senate. 32.
There is ample justification for considering theabove-mentioned articles and
others that I have written, which exemplify what Ican write on commission. They
form part of my three-volume study of judges andtheir judiciaries, titled and
downloadable thus:
ExposingJudges' Unaccountability
and Consequent Riskless Abuse of Power:
Pioneering thenews and publishing field of
judicialunaccountability reporting* †
* Volume 1:
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL/DrRCordero-Honest_Jud_Advocates.pdf ;
† Volume 2:
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL2/DrRCordero-Honest_Jud_Advocates2.pdf
‡ Volume 3:
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL3/DrRCordero-Honest_Jud_Advocates3.pdf
i.Open the downloaded files using Adobe Acrobat Reader,which is available for
free.
33. I have posted some of my articles to my website Judicial Discipline Reform
at http://www.Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org. Countless webvisitors have read ;
and appreciatedthem so much that as of this writing 37,155 and counting have
subscribed to mywebsite(Appendix3). How many law firms,never mind lawyers, do
you know who have a website with so many subscribers? 34. You cansubscribe for
free to its articles, such as this one, thus:
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C. Proposed action
35. Therefore, I respectfully propose that you, with a view to making
yourselfthis generation’s equivalent of WashingtonPost editor Benjamin Bradlee
of Watergate fame:
a. publishupon payment to me one or a series of my articles on judges’ crimes
and abuse of power; compensation of abusees; andreform of the judicial system,
including those described in the article below, sectionC. Sources of evidence
and examples of federal judges’criminality; e.g.:
1) their abusive enrichment denounced by Sen.Elizabeth Warren
2) their fraudulent filing and approval of financialdisclosure reports
3) their bankruptcy fraud scheme
4) their failureto read the overwhelming majority of briefs
b. embarkin a joint investigation withme and others of judges’ crimes and
abuse of power, which will be focused andcost-effective thanks to the abundance
of leads that I have gathered; c. i. makewith me a joint I accuse!
presentation,via video conference and/or in person, whose agenda includes
judicial abuse of power, compensation of abusees, and reform, at: 1) apress
conference; and 2) atour of law (OL:197§G), journalism, business, and
Information Technologyschools and think tanks upon contacting the student
officers ofthe class, the deans, and the professors whose courses are germane
to thesubject of our presentation; c. ii.to assess my capacity to make such
presentation, watch my video and follow it on its slides; d.promote the
holding of unprecedented citizenshearings on judges’ “bad Behaviour”, to be
conducted by multidisciplinarypanels of journalists, professors, and experts;
at media stations anduniversity auditoriums; where the victims of, and
witnesses to, judges’ “badBehaviour” can tell their story tothe national
public; and do so mostly through interactive video conference toreduce travel
expenses; reach the largest life audience possible; and receivetheir feedback
in real time; e.encourage the formation of local chapters of parties who have
appeared beforethe same ‘badly behaving’ judge or in the same court that covers
up for them,to demand collectively compensation forthe abuse and waste that
they have suffered; f. organizetogether with other media outlets, academics,
and me the first-ever, and national conference on judges’ “bad Behaviour”,
where the reportof the citizens hearings will be presented; g. participate in
a multidisciplinary academic andbusiness venture, described in my business
plan, that will turn the website of Judicial Discipline Reform from an
informational platform into: 1) a clearinghouse for complaints against judges
uploaded by anybody; 2) a research center for fee-paying clients auditing
judges’ decisions and searching many other writings frommany sources that
through computer-assisted statistical, linguistic, and literary analysis
canreveal the most persuasive type of evidence: judges’ patterns, trends,
andschemes of “bad Behaviour”; and 3) the digital portal of the venture and
the precursor tothe creation attached to a top university or think tank of the
institute of judicial unaccountability reporting and reformadvocacy. h.
Seeparagraph 57 in the below article forother proposed actions. D. My offer
to present this article and relatedproposals
36. I offer tomake a presentation of this article and related proposals to you
and yourguests followed by a Q&A session. The presentation can take placevia
video conference on short notice. To set its terms and scheduling you may usemy
contact information below. 37. To decide whether to organizethe presentation
you may watch my video and follow it on its slides.
38. To consult with others on this article and/or interest potentialguests in
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An appeal to U.S. Judge RobertPratt and
Associated Press reporter Ryan Foley
to dare expose judges’ criminality,
not only President Trump’s;and
promote the holding of
unprecedentedcitizens hearings
on judges’ unaccountability and
consequent riskless crimes, abuse of power, and
disregard for ethical
standardshttp://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL2/DrRCordero-JudgeRPratt.pdf
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
http://www.Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org
Dr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@xxxxxxxxxxx , DrRCordero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
, CorderoRic@xxxxxxxxx
U.S.Senior District Judge Robert W. PrattU.S. District for the Southern
District of
Iowahttps://www.iasd.uscourts.gov/content/senior-district-judge-robert-w-pratthttps://www.iasd.uscourts.gov/contact
Mr. Michael MessinaJudicial Assistant tel. (515)284-6254
Mr. Ryan Foley, reporter; and Mr. Ron Nixon, international
investigationseditorAssociated Press tel. +1(202) 281-8604; +1(202)
641-9000https://www.ap.org/contact-us/contact-newsroom
Dear Judge Pratt,Mr. Foley, Mr. Messina, Mr. Nixon, and Advocates of Honest
Judiciaries,
1. You, Judge Pratt, made your views on thepardons granted by President Trump
in December 2020 known to Associated Press (AP)reporter Ryan J. Foley, who
wrote the article referring to you and titled “Federal judge in Iowa ridicules
Trump's pardons”, published on December 30. 2. AP reporterFoley explained that
“Pratt made the remarks when asked for comment on pardons grantedto two former
top aides for Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign, who wereconvicted in a
corruption scheme related to the Iowa caucuses”. 3. AP Foley quotedyou as
saying, “It’s notsurprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other
criminals”. 4. Thisis an appeal for you to be consistent and honest by applying
to yourself andyour fellow judges that very same principle to expose judges’
pardons of eachother. Doing that requires more integrity and therefore is
riskier than beingflippant in ‘ridiculing Trump’s pardons’. However, you can do
that on the solidbasis of the facts discussed hereunder, which are known to you
given that youhave dealt as an insider of the judicial class for the more than
your 20 yearson the bench. 5. Byexposing judges’ reciprocal pardons, you can
set off in the administration ofjustice, not only by the Federal Judiciary, but
also by its state counterparts,transformative change: what goes into the
process of change comes outtransformed into a different system of justice, one
where judges are heldaccountable for their conduct and liable to compensate
their victims. 6. Ifyou can muster the necessary consistency, honesty, and
integrity, you can exitthe judiciary into retirement, not as yet another judge
among thousands. Rather, you canbring down, not merely a top official and all
his aides, as occurred in theWatergate scandal, which forced President Nixon to
resign on August 8, 1974, and sent all hisWhite House men to prison, but a
whole branch of government that judges,rendered unaccountable through
preemptive reciprocal pardons, risklessly run, as shownbelow, as a criminal
enterprise. 7. Thatis how instead of ridicule as a hypocrite, you can earn
praise as the maincharacter of the bestseller and protagonist of the
blockbuster movie/documentary ‘All thejudges’ exposer’.
A. Federal judgespardon each other by dismissing 100% of complaints against them
B. Federal judgespardon each other preemptively, sparing each other any
conviction
C. Sources of evidence and examples of judges’ criminality
1. Abusive self-enrichment
2. Fraudulent filing and approval of financial disclosurereports
3. Judges’bankruptcy fraud scheme
4. Interception of emails and mail
5. Failure to read the overwhelming majority ofbriefs
6. Sham hearingson the Rules for Processing Complaints
D. Proposed plan of concrete, reasonable, and feasibleactions for exposing
judges’ crimes
E. My offer topresent this article and related proposals
F. Everymeaningful cause needs resources for its advancement;
none can be continued, let alone advanced, without money
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