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Detroit judge who had teen handcuffed for sleeping temporarily removed from docket
Detroit’s chief judge has ordered a judge to undergo training after he handcuffed a teenage girl and threatened to jail her for sleeping and acting “attitude”. The judge had the girl handcuffed because she was threatening to go to jail and slept in his court. 36th District Court Chief Judge William McConico said after the…
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Justice Thomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says
After records revealed that the Supreme Court Justice Harlan Crow flew between Hawaii and New Zealand without disclosing it, Senator Ron Wyden wrote to Crow’s attorney. Justice Clarence Thomas did not publicly disclose the additional private travel paid for by wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow. This was revealed in a Monday letter from a top…
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Justice Kagan calls for a way to enforce Supreme Court ethics code
Justice Elena Kagan suggested that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. appoint a panel of outside judges of high respect to review allegations. Justice Elena Kagan announced Thursday that she supports the creation of a panel of judges to investigate potential violations of the Supreme Court’s new ethics code. She spoke out on an issue…
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Newly resigned federal judge is accused of harassing a law clerk and ‘unwanted, offensive, and abusive sexual conduct’
According to the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit, Joshua Kindred resigned last week as a U.S. District Court Judge for Alaska after having an “inappropriately sexified relationship” with his law clerk, engaging in “unwanted sexual conduct” and lying about it to the Chief Judge. The findings of the investigation are summed up in a…
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Left and right agree on one thing: The justice system is corrupted by bias
The courts are not equal, and it is naive for anyone to think otherwise. The other day, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked a simple question which in an earlier era would have prompted a flurry of banalities from civics classes about the nation of laws or the wisdom of our founding fathers. Anderson…
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North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code
These decisions were made despite Judicial Standards Commission recommendations to publicly reprimand judges. This is likely the first time in over a decade that the court has not followed the commission’s advice. Three sources who were directly involved in the decision say that the North Carolina Supreme Court, behind closed doors, squelched disciplinary actions against…
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Justice Thomas discloses two 2019 trips paid for by Harlan Crow
The 2023 financial disclosure report for Supreme Court Justices shows six-figure payments to Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. According to the financial disclosures for eight of nine Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas revealed for the first-time that he visited Bali in 2019 and attended a private club located in California, both paid for by Harlan Crow. Crow…
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NY Supreme Court Judge Mark Grisanti, who shoved cop, brawled with neighbors over parking spot, to be replaced on bench
The New York judge who was photographed shoving the police officer and fighting with his neighbors in a shirtless dispute over parking space is scheduled to be replaced shortly with a bench. Judge Mark Grisanti, an acting state Supreme Court justice in Buffalo is not in the list of 25 judicial nominees Gov. Kathy Hochul…
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Ketanji Brown Jackson ethics complaints referred to judicial conference finance committee
The Committee on Financial Disclosures in the Judicial Conference has received a complaint from Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, alleging that her income was not disclosed. The Center for Renewing America – a conservative policy group – filed a complaint last month with the Judicial Conference, which oversees federal courts, alleging that Jackson had…
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Ketanji Brown Jackson slapped with ethics complaint over husband’s income
Group claims Supreme Court Justice omitted portions on husband’s income for years. A conservative policy group filed an ethics complaint in the United States against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson, accusing him of “willfully” failing to disclose required income for many years during his tenure on federal benches. The Center for Renewing America (a think…