Listening to the obnoxious and clearly demented Antonin Scalia completely tanking the Voter Rights Act by referring to it as "a perpetuation of racial entitlement," aroused some of my most obnoxious thought processes as well. After at least twice admitting that he was willing to let an innocent man be executed because "innocence" is, somehow not a justification for a new trial, "Justice" Scalia's opinions seem to have easily met the legal criteria for "insanity," that is, not knowing "right" from "wrong." Most of his less important opinions such as considering a multi-million dollar campaign contribution to be an expression of "speech," only serve to confirm this sad but immutable fact.
Now, what you may ask, is even sadder than an insane
Supreme Court Justice meting out the death penalty to victims whom he admits
that he believes to be innocent? Is it a
fellow Supreme Court "Justice" who receives some six hundred thousand dollars
in payments through his lobbyist wife?
Is it the same "Justice" who fails to recuse himself from making
decisions on any of those cases involving his wife's lobbying? Is it the same Justice accused by multiple
law students of sexual harassment and even worse who was never thoroughly
investigated by the Senate or the Bar Association?
Believe it or not, it is none of these! No, the saddest, in fact, the most
disappointing and unavoidable fact is that the American Bar Association
has so obviously forfeited its right to independently certify and monitor its
members. Yes, the association metes out
token sanctions and occasionally serious "punishment" to offending member
attorneys, but not to judges who are attorneys.
Mind you, it is not because the Bar Association does not have the
power censure or even disbar judges who happen to also be attorneys. No, it is because the Bar Association seems
to be comprised of a group of so called "professionals" who are mostly abject
cowards! Deathly afraid to offend even
the most heinous, biased and incompetent judges for fear of retribution, they
cower before judges who violate not just their oath as judges, but the
standards set by the Bar as attorneys.
Meanwhile it was the attorneys, the independent Bar Association that
fought so hard to insure that only attorneys could become judges!
Notice something amiss here? The Bar Association is not under the
jurisdiction of a local or federal "Department of Professional
Regulation." Attorneys insist that they
are capable and can be trusted to regulate their own members! Whom are they kidding? Why are they not treated like all other
professionals? Worse yet, judges are
essentially unregulated because they too are regulated by themselves! What a colossal joke! Supposedly, Congress, can impeach a judge,
even a Supreme Court Justice, but, luckily they probably don't realize that
they can. I mean, imagine a Michele
Bachmann or an Alan West initiating impeachment proceedings against a Justice
because he said something un-Christian or that civil unions were Constitutional. No, folks, unfortunately, we are stuck with
the sniveling cowards of the American Bar Association, shaking in their boots,
afraid to even censure, let alone disbar a bigoted and legally insane
Supreme Court Justice or his colleague who received six hundred thousand
dollars in illicit payments for his decisions!
Allen Finkelstein
2/27/2013
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