Some people trust judges in our country to do the right thing, to follow the law, to uphold justice, to follow the U.S. Constitution, and to be worthy of respect.  Sadly, few judges perform their duties as they swore they would.  Many do the exact opposite of what they are supposed to do.  Some even belong in prison—and not because they are simply disliked but because they have actually committed crimes.

If we the people must follow the law, our government must follow the Constitution.  But a tangled web of legal doctrines effectively places government workers above the law by making it nearly impossible for individuals to hold them accountable for violations of constitutional rights.  Outside of narrow exceptions, these doctrines give all those employed by the government—police, mayors, school officials, IRS agents, you name it—immunity from lawsuits, even if they act in bad faith.

In the past fifteen years, state and local judges have repeatedly escaped public accountability for misdeeds that have victimized thousands.  Nine of ten kept their jobs, a Reuters investigation found—including an Alabama judge who unlawfully jailed hundreds of poor people, many of them black, over traffic fines.  Incredibly, even deliberate nefarious behavior is almost universally covered by "immunity."

There are not many individuals in U.S. history who have run for president and who have also fought to keep innocent people in prison.  In fact, there is only one.  And that individual is Kamala Harris.  This puts her by herself in her very own special class of evil presidential candidates. 

The high profile murder trial for Karen Read ended with a mistrial as a Massachusetts jury could not reach a unanimous verdict.  Prosecutors say they plan to re-try the case in the coming months.  Who is she, and why are her supporters calling to “Free Karen Read”?

As usual, mainstream media focuses on sensationalism and disregards real news.  The days of true journalism à la Jim Lehrer are long gone.  What happened on May 17, 2024, and during days following is a travesty of justice—but not because the charges against Mr. Scheffler were dropped.

We have a judicial enterprise that rules over us with absolutely no one ruling over them.  It was recently reported by the New York Times that Justice Samuel Alito had an upside-down American flag hung outside his home in mid-January 2021, a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” campaign to overturn the 2020 election results.  Alito passed the buck to his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, for flying the flag in response to neighbors whose yard signs she found offensive toward President Trump.  But under the Code of Judicial Conduct, it does not matter whether it was Justice Alito or his wife who flew the flag on his property so long as he knew it was being flown and did nothing to stop it.