"More Bad Judges"
Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 12:41PM Jack Newfield of The Nation has a piece about the Bush administration's latest crop of federal judicial nominees. Needless to say, he does not approve, concluding:
Bush is trying to transform America through lifetime judicial appointments for this biased batch and their clones. The bottom line is that the reckless Bushies are willing to violate computer privacy and vandalize the Bill of Rights to expedite this transformation. George W. Bush was appointed President by the Supreme Court after losing the popular vote by more than 500,000. Now he is trying to use the courts to legislate a mandate the voters never gave him by abusing the power of appointment and ignoring the Constitution's "advise and consent" clause.
You can read the whole thing here. (via How Appealing)
Reader Comments (796)
HAPPY!?!?!?
Perhaps society has finally reached the point of being upset with what we now call "the gouge".
Let me define "the gouge". The gouge is the divide between those that have and those that do not have ... enough that is. Those that have enough want more. They have to get it from someone that does not have enough. Thats because the have-enoughs hang together.
In order to accomplish the gouge, the haves (banded together) "juice" politicians and judges like you breathe air. This way, the haves can take from the have-not-enoughs.
Those that have "juiced" will not get "screwed".
Weller owes big favors to all of those lawyers and their firms that paid tons of money into his campaign against Sferrazza. Those that made Weller "king" want to be repaid in the form of patronage from their royal highness. In order for him to do that, he has to "gouge" everyone else. Take from the less than haves and give to the haves more than enough crowd.
Just imagine, after a tough campaign against Sferrazza, if Weller had lost Sferrazza would have pummeled him every time he walked into court. Winning judges have no love for losers that fought a tough campaign.
The gouge of course extends to politicians that abuse the tax system just to dole out incredible pork to their buddies and subsidies multi-billionaires at the expense of the working stiff.
The gouge extends to your local Walgreens where, depending on which area you live in, the price of a toothbrush will either be $2.99 or $1.99 based on "structured pricing" (translation: how much they think you will pay in your locale. If you life in a rich area, expect to pay the extra buck).
The gouge extends to your local gas station. There you might pay an extra 5 cents per tank of gas because the pump only has to be accurate within 10 cc's or so of a gallon. So they set their pumps accordingly.
The gouge is your bank saving up all of your checks so they can overdraft them after FIRST hitting you with your monthly fee and run you over by $1 (even though they are holding your recent cash deposit for 4 days).
The gouge is your credit card company changing the terms of your agreement and hiking your interest rate to 30 percent.
Why do the "have more than enoughs" gouge? SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY CAN FOORKING DO IT! THAT'S WHY!
And because Judge Weller can screw innocent Nevadans and particularly Reno-ites coming before his high and mighty bench, HE DOES IT WITH IMPUNITY!
So wake up folks! No one should kill another human being, even if it is this barely-resembles-human Weller. The guy who did it broke the law. The shooter likely should be punished. But under these circumstances: heck its water under the bridge so don't shed a tear for Weller. It isn't right. It isn't legal. It maybe isn't fair either. But maybe he got what he deserved anyway.
Or should I say, you live by the sword ... you die by it. Weller broke the law countless times and its rather obvious at this point. If he's a criminal why are we surprised that another criminal shot him?
Dark Justice.
The problem with judges is that one side loves them and the other side hates them. It is a thousand times worse with a family court judge. You could not get me to do that job with all of the money in the world, plus thick bullet proof glass in my office windows. Life is too short to put up with a bunch of whiners and moaners, even if they are right at the end of the day, and that is a big "if."
Finally, to whoever thought that the shooter will get away, I bet you that he (yes, it will likely be a "he") will be in jail before a full week has past. He may even be dead by then, either on his own or, ironically, from a police sniper. My prayers are with the Judge, who is only doing what he thinks is correct, and with the shooter, who needs all the help that he can get. Mr. Sniper, if you are reading this, be a man, admit that you made a big mistake, and turn yourself in before things get any worse for you. And while you are at it, pray like you have never prayed before that the Judge survives. Otherwise, you could end up with a needle in your arm while the State of Nevada "drips" you. It is better than a bullet, and better than the gas chamber, but you are stillD-E-A-D!
Family Court Judge is not an easy job. Ultimately, the judge is judged by many who, in their own minds, are more qualified to apply judgment than he is.
If the shooter is arrested and makes it to court, I'm sure he'll have no difficulty in finding a nice slimy Liberal lawyer to defend his grievance and justify his circumstances and demonize, further, Judge Weller.
as Paul Harvey says, maybe, before long, we will know the rest of the story.
Judges who disregard the law and just do what they want are worse than dirty cops. From what I have read about this guy he got what he deserved.
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A judge may be corrupt and/or lame, but going out and trying to kill him/her is beyond comprehension.
This is why we have the Courts and the Law.
"I am a former police officer and your comments are getting close to illegal in my humble opinion"
So...law is based on opinion at the moment? And being a former officer makes you qualified? Someone makes a comment about it, not a threat, and you respond in a threatening way? No wonder people ARE fed up.
No matter how much we do not agree with a judge's decisions, there are better ways to handle things than trying to assassinate the guy.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Are you truly surprised by the events? It is a well established fact that oppression of any group in society will increase social deviance. America’s probate courts have operated with the general presumption that they are above the law. While the Supreme Courts decision in Marshall v Marshall attempted to send a message to the Probate Court Systems. Some judges still have not seen the writing on the wall that their days of autonomy are numbered.
The second part is simply a comment made in what is considered our cultural norm. Do you not believe we as Americans have a certain vigilante mentality? It is always a matter of what is considered social relevance.
An example would be a mother who shoots an individual for molesting her eight year old daughter. While some individuals may not openly condone her actions, in some circles it is certainly would be understood.
Lastly, it always amazes me how we as Americans conveniently forget our own history both negatively and positively.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”
These guys would have been detained and held at GITMO indefinitely!
I have seen NV. and ID. courts allow people to hurt each other legally. And this is NOT in the BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN.The law of physic's, cause and effect. What will we do now? OVER REACT? Reno tends to have a council that does not listen to its people. I hope the National news will offer sanity options verses just a radical-paranoia.Please will someone look into the long term corruption of Nevada courts? I heard one person say the mafia ran the state better. Well I don't know about that. But since Katrina, crime has spread where ever "her" victims have arrived. The attitude of people has lowered since 9/11 and we need to shift to save our society lest BOOM BOX STERIO CARS and negative attitudes become even more fashionable than they are. Without compassion we will all suffer. Pray by what ever Name you call your God, just Pray for ALL OUR PEOPLE. Including all those involved in this situation. Thanks.
When someone is unfit to be a parent, their children are at risk of being taken away. THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS. Browse through this page. Any where, does one of the venemous posters make light of their own mistakes? Nope. It's the system's fault, The judge was unfair. Personal accountability is the foundation of law, and many of the people in this forum are attempting to subvert this. If anyone believes that the self-proclaimed victims of Judge Weller are without fault, perhaps a little un-biased research would prove otherwise to them.
And now, a man has very nearly been killed for some sniveling pissant who refused to answer to his personal accountability. Any who would say that Judge Weller deserved an attempt on his life need to take a serious look at their morality, and decide if they want to stand for unjustified, murderous rage and its effects.
If you stand on the side of murder, you disgust me, and are an unfit citizen.
National statistics’ indicate that in contested custody disputes less than three percent of fathers win custody of the children. Joint custody is also only ordered less than five percent of the time. This means that ninety two percent of the time sole custody is awarded to the mother. Now I didn’t know about you, but I find it very hard to believe that ninety two percent of fathers are unfit as you say. This leads me to believe that fathers are being treated unfairly.
Now let address the personal responsibility issue.
In a twelve month period this Judge had twenty eight appeals filed against decisions made in his courtroom. The appeals filed against the other two Judges in this court house were three and zero respectfully. You may not be aware, but appealing a Judge’s decision is a very costly proposition. Further, you can’t just file an appeal simply because you don’t like the Judge’s decision. There has to be an error of law in the Judges decision as the basis for the appeal. So this indicates to me that either the Judge just ignored the law, or as suggested was crooked.
So I will say it again, he got what he deserved and I certainly do not have any sympathy for him. I feel the same about his situation as I do for the drug dealer that gets shot in a drug deal gone badly. Nor do I have any sympathy for the priest who is molested in jail after being convicted of sexual molesting the alter boy.
Now why you may point out that he is a justice of the court. That just makes it worse, a degree of trust was placed in him just like the priest, and it was violated.
Now a reality check for you! Do you really believe that the United States Government gave African Americans equal rights simply because of Martin Luther King preaching’s. No, it was the riots and violence that ensued after his death. Oppression and unfair treatment usually lead to violence.
Another example was the quote that I previously gave. That quote led to a war that founded this country. I believe that example of social disobedience was a positive outcome.
Oh, and by the way their were no Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Could you please site where you got this information... weblinks, etc. I would like to view this information for myself. Thanks in advance.
I have to admit, after reading all the complaints about this particular judge, my first reaction, is this guy must be a problem.
I'm a former police officer and never dealt with family law and family courts, but I dealt enough with domestic disturbances, the fact is, the father was by far the problem issue in most of the domestic cases I was involved in.
Now mind you, I was a police officer in the Air Force, not in civilian life, but hey, society's issues are the same in the military as they are in the civilian world.
I am now a pastor, and still see the majority of "spiritual" issues and problems in the family's stem from the father. I am a father of two young children, and I live my life with purpose, morals, and love with the intent of never seeing the inside of a family court.
If others lived their lives this way, putting their children first, instead of depending on the courts and law, things would be much better. But hey, I'm a realist, and it's not gonna happen until Jesus Christ comes back, and sets up his own "court system". Enough ranting by me!
Psalm 142:6-7
That being said, I'll leave you with this from my spiritual leader:
"choose to be optimistic, it feels better." - Dali Lama