"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)
And he is a most wanted fugitive why?Don't we have real criminals to catch, ones that pose huge dangers to the country? This guy, Mack, is done with all the killing he's going to do. He's no threat to anyone else other than his ex-wife who he already killed, and Judge Weller, who he barely missed out on killing.The FBI has messed up priorities, and the national media drives it.
"uh, does anyone know who is the forum master so I can kiss his ass?"
How about you just start posting about the case again, and we'll go back to normal, just like we were before you decided to be an ASS MONKEY and insult, without posting any content whatsoever.
Now, the issue of Family Court investigationshould surface. How can people be expectedenforce a judge's order at their expense.Family Court order's should be enforced by thedistrict attorney's office, and contempt ofthose order's should not be placed in thehands of the spouse nor should the orders, again,and contempt hearings should be regular hearings to find if orders are being observedand if, not, contempt hearings should be called for and be the sole resposibilty of the familycourt.
Also, in court hearings, each guardian should beallowed to speak and set a foundation for the judge to understand, not just what is the modeof the judge only asking yes or no questions.
There should be a special contempt and order's enforcement court to hear emergency complaintsin order to not allow the excalation of violence.Plus, the children are in limbo while waiting months for a hearing, which creates more heatand conflict for them inadvertantly.
Good Job police and FBI
Now Courts and judges please, show that violence is not tolerated publically nor domestically ever, and if people resort tothat level, they should face the maximum punishment set by law, as well as do communityservice equal to amount of man hours that were spent in response to the trouble that Mack causedin our community, ie. police hours, hours people spent waiting to return to their homes, hours that people who missed planes and connecting flights at the airports, on and on. Mack didn'tjust harm himself and his family, he killed his wife, he destroyed the remaining balance in his children's and mothers' life, he also made othersthat worked or were bystanders have to deal withhis value system. He must pay. If Freeman gets him off with his connections and favors-back, that will be horrible. He knew right from wrongand he should now be held responsible. WhenCharla's brother asked him how he felt representing a murderer, that was a valid question, and a brother in disbelief and pain should be answered with a statment of integrity, not with a "don't contact us" unless it is through the good ole boy network. Liars(lawyers)should have a little heart as they work to rob the system blind.
Wish the Bar association had a complaint courtthat met regularily to police it's own members.The way they have their complaint system is user-unfriendly.
The Court has no whistle-blower system to police it's integrity.
-the legal system as we know it is a joke.-the judges do what the want.-the lawyers are crooked at best.-the whole court system is not about what is right, not even about what is legal anymore.-the bar association is more like a band of thieves. trying to get their help is pretty much just going to tell one criminal on another... what's the point?-they're all doing wrong.-they're all covering each other's asses.
and then, they all have the nerve to tell US what we SHOULD BE DOING!
At least though, he is showing them that he is a man, coming back to face his plight.
He deserves to pay for his crimes, but there should be mitigating circumstances to lessen his sentence in light of what he went through in Family Court.
Keeping him in prison for eternity would really not do anyone any good.
He was a pretty much a model citizen up until June 12, 2006... Likely, he would become one again.
I say, no attorney's allowed, just the spouses and non-house investigators.
I say, orders should be followed and if they arein non-complyence, they should be immediatelypoliced by the Family Court itself. Contemptof Court discipline should be just and immediate.
I say, if lawyers are allowed, both must have them, and they should be court appointed by lawyers that work for the County.
I say, lawyers should have to take an honestyoath and be responsible for all their accusationsand mis-information. As well as a drug test.
I say, there should be many more courts and judges that spend the average of three or fourdays on each case in order to come to the bestagreement.
I say, investigators should, at any time, be allowed and required to have random family checksin order to maintain the children's best interest, and be required to speak at each hearing for the benefit of the doubt for the children.
these are just a few off the top of my mind thatcome into play.
oh yes, financial awards must match the lowestamount that the state requires for foster children.
the children are what the court should be looking after, not the emotional whims of thesniveling parents. Judges do not really knowthe amount of damages that their gavel does during the lifetimes of the children. Their pain and inequity and loss if felt for theirentire lifetime. Sad, but true, and if theremaining Judges really care about being safe,they should consider the safety and well beingabout the children first. Like was mentioned before, all that it should have taken was someshutters and window tint, which doesn't take alot of money, but would impede their view of theriver and of disgruntled people who have no reguard for the law and common sense.
Mack can become a model citizen of the prison that he sentenced himself to, for he lost all rights to be one in the community when he crossed the line, for whatever reasons.Perhaps he will be able to brainstorm what should be from there, but after what he did toCharla, there is no chance, and for her, she has no voice to speak what changes she thinks should happen, except of course, that there is danger intransporting and exchanging children for 50-50 custody or any custody change.God bless her and her daughter, her mom and her brother, for lost the most. Darron Mack choose toloose his voice and community standing, if he really did have one or was a model citizen as you said.
I hope that all involved make lemonade, and especially the Family Courts in Washoe County.I hope that the County honors Charla by instigation of the Family Court Reform.I hope the County insitgates custody and visitation reform in response to Darron's murdering her while she dropped off her daughter.(this is one time where she should of not observed the visitation schedule, for sure) Darn!
Freeman wont get him off but he is the best around and theres a lot of mitigations to lessen the sentence. This will take years.
I don't really want to be right, and certainly my ideas have their flaws in many ways, but I want to start a thread of suggestions that are going in the upwards direction toward helping solve some of the overlooked reasons of why the family court laws are there in the first place. If simplicity was the first order in the court, somuch could be made appropriate and the needs ofthe children would be foremost. Case law shouldbe thrown out when deciding family issues and care, education, activities, and developing thepotentials of the children should be the first concern instead of when she has them or when he has them and is it fair. My god, the emotionalwellbeing of the parents, custodial or not, is usually the issue.There should be a code of ethics that the parents must abide by in order to even bringthere case into court. They should have counseling to express their concerns, and thenthe counselor should help soothe the concerns andthen the Judge should hear the concerns and decide if the children will be affected. Then, the ruling, the order, as it is called should reflect concerns and solutions as well as the order should reflect factually, the issues needed to be addressed. Perhaps the Family Court should be renamed Children's Court and rid the county of Family Court Altogeher, by calling that Divorce Court. OMG now i am totally confused...i must go back to my life for good.
Someone take it from here and lead the community in demanding Family Court Reform.If Dateline comes, picket so they can see there are more than one or two upset families.Go Guys, I bet you could even get the DistrictAttorney's office behind you all, for they do not want to see so much money and time being wasted on things that could/should of been prevented.
To hear that the State of Nevada used it's own jet and fuel at around$5,000 a gas tank to bringMack back to stand trial makes me realize thatprevention is worth a pound of cure and in this instance, there is no cure. Darn. Our leader's need to step up to the plate. This is the United States of America, and our great nationwas founded and remains at the mercy of our leaders. If anyone out there can stand the heat-get in the kitchen please.
This whole thing has made me feel horrible, again.