Objections Overruled—How Judges Escape Public Accountability: Part One of Two
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."