Posted on 04/13/2015 7:09:37 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Judiciary Federal court: no liability for PA judge who made up criminal charge
By Rachel MartinPublished April 13, 2015watchdog.org
A federal court recently told a Lawrence County woman she’s simply out of luck and can’t sue local officials, including a Common Pleas judge who apparently made up a criminal charge that was used to place her on electronic monitoring.
A judge has absolute civil immunity, even if the action “was in error, was done maliciously, or was in excess of his authority,” the three-judge panel ruled in its six-page opinion.
Judge Thomas Piccione had ordered Lynn Van Tassel to report to jail after she didn’t pay her ex-husband’s attorney’s fees as ordered — even though she was appealing that order. He sentenced her to 90 days in jail and had her arrested on a bench warrant.
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“A judge has absolute civil immunity, even if the action “was in error, was done maliciously, or was in excess of his authority,” the three-judge panel ruled in its six-page opinion. “
Nice work if you can get it.
When someone is put above any civil or judicial remedy, extra judicial remedies are invited.
Time to bring back tar and feathers.
What ones one do when those who are supposed to defend and abide by the law, make their own law, and are held “unaccountable” for violations of actual law?
What a corrupt system our once proud nation of the Law has become.
Three boxes of Liberty:
Soap Box
Ballot Box
Ammo Box
absurd!
A principle that judges invented. How convenient.
Everything you need to know about what's wrong with our system in a single sentence.
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Impure thoughts on a steamboat landing!.................90 days and $1000!............
Justice must be served, one way or another.
‘Nuclear Option’ Helps Obama Reshape The Courts For A Generation
BySahil KapurPublishedDecember 18, 2014,
President Barack Obama can thank outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for triggering the “nuclear option” in November 2013 and securing him one of the most robust judicial legacies of any modern president.
In six years, he has appointed a whopping 307 judges, who will shape the law for decades after he leaves office. The final 12 district judges were confirmed in the closing night of the Senate session on Tuesday, Reid’s final move before Democrats surrender control of the chamber.
“The Obama Administration and the United States Senate have given Americans the best possible holiday present: the gift of justice,” said Nan Aron, the president of the progressive law and policy group Alliance For Justice.
A total of 132 judges were confirmed in the 113th Congress — the most since the 1970s.
Perhaps most significant is his appointment of 53 judges on federal circuit courts, which have the last word on most matters of law. When Obama took office, just one of 13 appeals courts had a majority of Democratic-appointed judges on the active bench. Today, nine of 13 appeals courts have a majority of Democratic appointees.
“There has been an extraordinary onslaught of confirmations in the last year,” said Russell Wheeler, an expert on federal courts at the Brookings Institution.
Obama has named the first-ever Native American woman and Indian-American federal judge. He has placed more female and Hispanic judges than any previous president, and more Asian-American and openly gay judges than all other presidents combined.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/senate-nuclear-option-seals-obama-judicial-legacy
There is another word for “absolute civil immunity”. Let me see, what was that word? Oh yeah, tyranny!
root of liberty needs the blood of tyrants from time to time....
Black-robed scum protecting their fellows.
At the very least,the judge should be immediately removed from the bench and forbidden practice of law.
And it should be noted in the records that the woman was unjustly imprisoned and fined.
There is nothing so wrong in the history of humankind as the principle that”the king can do no wrong”.That evil notion is the basis for all the varied immunity of governments.
Ten worst rulings we are likely to see from a liberal Supreme Court
If just one of the center-right Justices retires before President Obama leaves office or during the possible presidency of Hillary Clinton, the President will tip the balance of power on the Court in a hard Left direction by appointing a fifth Liberal Justice. If this happens, here are the top 10 worst rulings we are likely to see from the Supreme Court . . .
#10 – A ban on voter ID laws, making it impossible to stop voter fraud;
#9 – Carte blanche for hate-speech laws that ban videos and other expression deemed offensive to Muslims and other minorities;
#8 – Abolition of the death penalty;
#7 – A prohibition on tuition vouchers being used for religious schools, crippling the school choice movement;
#6 – Elimination of all legal limits on racial preferences for minorities;
#5 – A requirement for taxpayer-funding of abortions through the third trimester of pregnancy;
#4 – A constitutional right to gay marriage that would trump all claims of religious liberty;
#3 – Striking down, as unconstitutional discrimination, any serious attempt to curtail the flow of illegal immigrants into the country or to deny them government benefits;
#2 – Elimination of an individual right to possess firearms;
#1 – Enshrinement of welfare and government-provided healthcare as constitutional rights, thus fulfilling Barack Obama’s dream of a Supreme Court willing to bring about “redistribution of wealth” by “break[ing] free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution.” (quoting a 2001 PBS interview with Obama).
http://www.committeeforjustice.org/content/judges-project
Sort of like that lack of standing against the usurper.
As I recall, Stalin had “absolute civil immunity” too. We all know how well that worked out.
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