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A Louisiana judge previously suspended for violating judicial conduct rules in a separate incident has been arrested and charged with corruption for taking bribes to alter defendants’ bonds. It marks the third case in the last decade that a Louisiana state judge is criminally charged for bond manipulation. Jefferson Parish judges Ronald Bodenheimer and Alan Green both went to jail for taking bribes from a bail bonds executive to alter bonds for the firm’s customers. Those judges got busted during an extensive federal investigation—Operation Wrinkled Robe—into Jefferson Parish Courthouse corruption. Bodenheimer spent nearly four years in prison and Green is...

President Obama and Congressional Democrats, in order to please their constituency, must nominate a Supreme Court Justice who is female and who is African American, because Whites, Jews, Catholics, Protestants and Men, have been over represented among the Supremes for nearly 200 years. Gays, as far as we know, have been overlooked so the nominee will also have to be "out." The nominee for Supreme Court Justice Must be Black - To meet PC quota system Must be a Woman, but not feminine Must love abortion more than Kathleen Sebelius Must hate men more than Kelly McGinnis Must be gayer...

The bankruptcy judge who oversaw the massive cleanup after the Enron and WorldCom meltdowns has a new challenge -- overhauling Chrysler LLC. Judge Arthur Gonzalez of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan was assigned the case on Thursday after the iconic carmaker sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following the breakdown of intense negotiations with lenders. Chrysler filed the case in one of the premier federal bankruptcy courts, and Gonzalez is one of its most experienced judges. He simultaneously handled the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies earlier this decade -- both filed after massive accounting frauds were unearthed at the companies. "We have...

Liberal Democrats on Capitol Hill, including some of its most powerful members, are pressing for the impeachment of a federal judge over the Bush Administration's "torture memos", an aggressive move President Obama has no official power to stop. The growing calls for the impeachment of Judge Jay Bybee, who as a senior Justice Department lawyer in 2002 approved and signed a legal opinion that said harsh interrogation techniques, including the simulated drowning method known as waterboarding, did not constitute torture. Mr Obama has made clear that he wants to move on from the issue of alleged Bush-era abuses, but constitutionally...

A Utah mother of four small children has been jailed on a judge's order that she serve 30 days behind bars for allegedly sending a text message while she was watching a court proceeding....According to Jackson's report the incident happened....about a month ago, but his daughter-in-law was summoned to court only yesterday and ordered immediately to jail....Susan Henwood allegedly sent a text message, an action that didn't affect the hearing, its participants, or the judge, but later was reported to him by a member of the court staff, according to Jackson.

Veterans In Politics Talk Show Introduces Henderson Judge Hedger and Kevin Decker LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net May 2: Kevin Decker Executive Consultant: Douglas W. Hedger Henderson Municipal Court Judge Department 2: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson and Co-Hosted by J. "Sage" Bocook. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you can call in and speak to the guest or/and hosts at (702) 309-6690. Listen to the Veterans In Politics Municipal Candidate 2009 Endorsement Interview--- (VIP 1-11) at http://alltalkradio.net/alt/show.php?folder=veteransinpolitics --For Mayor,...

Note: This story contains material that some readers might consider graphic and offensive. An openly homosexual blogger and judge of the Miss USA pageant has launched into a full-blown attack on Christian contestant Carrie Prejean – calling her a b-tch and a c---, as well as defacing photos of her with sexually explicit drawings – because she believes marriage should be between a man and a woman. At Sunday night's pageant, Prejean was asked the one question she dreaded most, "Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage; do you think every state should follow suit?" Her answer,...

Former Alaska GOP Sen. Ted Stevens' conviction on public corruption charges has been thrown out by a Federal Judge because prosecutors mishandled and withheld evidence and witnesses. The video above is of CNN Analyst Jeffrey Toobin talking about the decision . . . . . . (Watch Video)

Waukesha - The state Supreme Court campaign is ending with a fight over a new issue: Who is the better friend of Wisconsin gun owners? Challenger Randy Koschnick, a Jefferson County circuit judge, told Carroll University Republicans last week that a 2003 dissenting opinion written by Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson showed a "hostility to gun owners" and their constitutional rights. Responding later, Abrahamson said: "Nothing in my record is hostile to gun owners. Nothing in my record is hostile to any group, any individual, any entity. "Judge Koschnick is doing anything at all to mislead the voters and distort the...

A former south Alabama judge is accused of checking male inmates out of jail and forcing them to engage in sexual activity including paddling, according to officials and court documents. Former Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas denies all the charges, his attorney says. Former Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas was arrested Friday after a grand jury returned the indictments against him. He was released on $287,500 bond later Friday. The indictments total 57 counts, and the charges range from ethics violations to kidnapping, extortion, sex abuse and sodomy. If convicted on the most serious charge -- kidnapping, a...

Veterans In Politics Talk Show Introduces Les LaMotte, Judge Hoeffgen, Chris Cannon LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net April 4: Les LaMotte Executive Producer Back Stage Digital Media: Christopher Cannon North Las Vegas Police Officer and candidate for North Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge: Sean Hoeffgen North Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Department 2 and candidate for North Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson and Co-Hosted by J. "Sage" Bocook. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the United States to release a prisoner from the Guantanamo detention center who said he fears for his life after informing against senior al-Qaida leaders. U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle issued a one-page judgment ordering the release of Yasin Muhammed Basardh, a 33-year-old from Yemen. The judge didn't say in the ruling why Basardh should be let go, but she said it was explained during a closed hearing in her courtroom earlier in the day.

JUDGES should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq. Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.

On March 25th, Clinton-appointed Judge James Robertson (U.S. District Court), after having threatened to impose financial sanctions on John D. Hemenway for having enjoined the Berg lawsuit to force President Obama to release his birth records to prove his citizenship, backed down. Instead of financial penalties, the Judge issued a reprimand tinged with flippancy. Judge Robertson reconsidered his previous sanctions threat, possibly fearing monetary sanctions might spark a backlash and give a boost to the grassroots effort to force Mr. Obama to relinquish his records for public scrutiny. While the Judge gives passing tribute to Hemenway's long career of public...

MOBILE — Former Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas has been arrested and faces a 57-count indictment on charges including sodomy, kidnapping, extortion and violating Alabama’s ethics law.---------- snip The indictments accuse the former judge of sexually abusing inmates from Mobile Metro Jail. The indictments say Thomas paddled the inmates and in at least one case forced a young man to perform oral sex on him.

President Obama / Judge David Hamilton Washington D.C., Mar 27, 2009 / 04:04 am (CNA).- President Barack Obama’s first judicial nominee’s record includes judicial decisions which obstructed the enforcement of Indiana’s informed consent law requiring women to be told the risks of abortion.President Obama on March 17 nominated Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal. He is presently U.S. District Chief Judge for the Southern District of Indiana.Over his seven years as a district judge, Judge Hamilton ruled against the Indiana informed consent law which required abortionists to inform women about the risks of abortion. The...

In 2005, in Hinrichs v. Bosma, federal district judge (and now Seventh Circuit nominee) David Hamilton enjoined the Speaker of Indiana’s House of Representatives from permitting “sectarian” prayers to be offered as part of that body’s official proceedings. In so doing, Hamilton adopted one reasonable construction—though not the only one available—of the Supreme Court’s messy Establishment Clause rulings. (In denying a stay of Hamilton’s order pending appeal, the majority on a divided Seventh Circuit panel indicated that its “initial reading of the case law” strongly inclined it to Hamilton’s reading, but the Seventh Circuit ultimately reversed Hamilton on standing grounds.)...

A judge vaulted his bench and rugby tackled a defendant who began attacking a woman who had just finished testifying against him in a domestic violence case. Judge Ian Richards, 33, showed no hesitation in jumping on top of John Charles Reasee who had chased Nicole Ward across the court room. The incident took place yesterday morning in the normally sedate surroundings of the courtroom at Broward County, Florida, and was recorded on video. (snip) Later in the day he was modest about his role. 'That was unfortunate, something I hope never happens again,' Judge Richards said. He added: 'It's...

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq, March 24, 2009 – Army Reserve Lt. Col. Jeff Wallace has traded his judge’s gavel for a 9 mm pistol to take on his first deployment here. Army Reserve Lt. Col. Jeffrey M. Wallace, judge advocate general for 304th Sustainment Brigade, serves as circuit court judge for the state of Oregon. The 59-year-old is currently deployed to Joint Base Balad, Iraq. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. In Iraq, Wallace is the command judge advocate for the 304th Sustainment Brigade. As a civilian, he serves as a circuit court judge for the...

(CNSNews.com) – A federal court in New York on Monday expanded teenagers’ access to Plan B – also known as the morning-after pill or emergency contraception. The court gave the Food and Drug Administration 30 days to make Plan B available over the counter to 17 year olds. Right now, the pill is available over the county only to those 18 years and up. Pro-life groups are dismayed that 17-year-old girls will now have unrestricted access to a drug that can produce abortion by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. But abortion rights groups celebrated the ruling,...

Gun prohibitionists are crowing that a federal judge on March 19 blocked a rule change allowing concealed carry in national parks. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Bill Clinton appointee, issued a preliminary injunction that the National Rifle Association says it will quickly appeal. BULLETIN: The NRA on Friday filed an appeal in this case. An apparently giddy Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, was quoted by the Associated Press noting, “We’re happy that this headlong rush to push more guns into more places has been slowed.” Darned right he’s happy, but this has nothing...

I'll leave it to others to present statistical arguments refuting U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's insane ruling that an environmental impact study has any relevance to real-world consequences if existing state laws regarding concealed carry are applied in national parks. The crux of her extremist position? The lynchpin of Defendants’ response is that the Final Rule has no environmental impacts–and that Defendants were not required to perform any environmental analysis–because the Final Rule only authorizes persons to possess concealed, loaded, and operable firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges, and does not authorize persons to discharge, brandish, or otherwise use...

Jesse H. Merrell, who lives on Garfield Street Northwest, tells Inside the Beltway that a pair of deputy U.S. marshals paid him a visit last Friday after he had written a letter to U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson regarding President Obama's citizenship controversy.

DALLAS — The top judge in Dallas' municipal court system is receiving criticism for writing that "black folks have been cleaning up white folks' messes for hundreds of years" in his column in a weekly newspaper with a mostly black readership. Administrative Judge C. Victor Lander apologized Tuesday. A member of the Dallas City Council, which appoints all municipal judges, has called for his resignation. Lander, who is black, said he wrote his column earlier this month to praise the reform efforts of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, the state's first black DA. Watkins has gained national attention for...

Veterans In Politics Talk Show Introduces Dina Titus and Bert Brown LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net March 14:: Bert Brown Chief Judge Las Vegas Municipal Court Department 4:: Dina Titus Congresswoman for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District:: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson and Co-Hosted by J. "Sage" Bocook. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you can call in and speak to the guest or/and hosts at (702) 309-6690.

A Miami juvenile court judge apologized for telling a runaway foster child she could end up a 'dead crack whore' if she didn't straighten up. A Miami child-welfare judge drew the ire of his boss in the judiciary and local children's advocates when he told a 15-year-old runaway foster child she would end up a ''toothless, dead crack whore'' if she didn't mend her ways. Exasperated that the girl was refusing to return to a home where she said her caregiver hit and cursed at her, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Spencer Eig lectured the sobbing teen about making bad choices during...

A federal judge got political Wednesday, taking a swipe at Sarah Palin while powwowing with lawyers in the case of an autistic boy whose parents are fighting a ban on big dogs at their luxury upper East Side building. Manhattan Federal Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald blasted the Alaska governor and former vice presidential candidate for bringing her Down syndrome child on stage after a debate. "That kid was used as a prop," Buchwald told lawyers during a hearing on Wednesday. "And that to me as a parent blew my mind." Buchwald, a 62-year-old Democrat appointed by former President Bill Clinton,...

CLEVELAND -- The aunt of President Barack Obama, who was living in Cleveland for a time, will get to stay in the United States for now. A judge issued a stay in the deportation case of Zeituni Onyango, 56. She fled to Cleveland from Boston last year when it was made known that she had been illegally in the United States since

Repeatedly using vulgar and racial insults, Superior Court Judge E. Curtissa Cofield argued with a police officer — addressing him as "Negro trooper" at one point — who was trying to process her on a charge of drunken driving in Glastonbury last October, a police video released Monday shows. Cofield also is heard twice on the video using the racial term "n-----." The state's Judicial Review Council released the video Monday after it found cause to pursue five judicial misconduct charges against her, several of them based on what was termed disparaging, demeaning or "racially inappropriate" language. The council has...

A US judge on Thursday ordered Russia to preserve sacred religious documents that members of Chabad-Lubavitch movement are suing to recover and fear could be headed to the black market. Chabad sued Russia in a US court to recover thousands of manuscripts, prayers, lectures and philosophical discourses by leading rabbis dating back to the 18th century. The entire collection, which Chabad says totals 12,000 books and 50,000 rare documents, is being held in the Russian State Military Archives and was formerly held by Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, a leader of Chabad-Lubavitch who was born in Russia but forced by the...

A former Morris County municipal judge arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated also was charged with refusing to take a breath test when the procedure could not be administered due to his continual burping, a police officer testified yesterday. After being pulled over in Sparta on Feb. 15 on suspicion of DWI, George Korpita, 48, a former municipal judge in Dover, Rockaway Borough and Victory Gardens, consented to take a breath test. But the procedure could not be administered because Korpita repeatedly burped, Sparta patrolman Jo seph Pensado testified during a bench trial in the Sussex County township's...

NYC judge rules that Bernard Madoff can remain free on bail in Manhattan penthouse A judge has allowed Bernard Madoff to remain free on bail, rejecting a bid by prosecutors to send the disgraced investor to jail. Madoff mailed more than $1 million in jewelry and heirlooms to family and friends over the holidays. Prosecutors said the gifts were grounds to have his bail revoked because what's left of Madoff's assets will have to be returned to burned investors. The anxiously awaited decision puts furhter restrictions on Madoff, including forcing him to come up with a list of items at...

The mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has hit out at a ban imposed by Belfast’s High Court on newspapers unmasking notorious sex offenders. Sara Payne — whose eight-year old daughter was killed by paedophile Roy Whiting in 2000 — branded the court ruling banning photographs being printed of killers who are released from custody as “outrageous”. Last week a High Court judge banned our sister paper The Sunday Life and other media outlets from publishing pictures of rapist and murder Ken Callaghan (41) when he is released back into the community. His life sentence tariff expired last October and...

Decatur, Ala. (AP) --A federal judge ordered an Alabama sheriff locked up in his own jail Wednesday after holding him in contempt for failing to adequately feed inmates while profiting from the skimpy meals. U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon had court security arrest Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett at the end of a hearing that produced dramatic testimony from skinny prisoners about paper-thin bologna and cold grits...

Every day hundreds of thousands of students fail to show up to school, often for no good reason. But in Midland, Texas, one judge has come up with some creative ways to make a difference -- so much so that cities across that state are following his lead. n Midland, about 3,500 students, or 10 percent of the student population, regularly skip school -- and truancy is often a step toward dropping out altogether. For those who habitually miss class, they'll see more than the principal -- they'll end up in front of Judge David Cobos. Cobos is known as...

VICTIMS of a despicable serial burglar burst into applause while in court when a judge jailed him for 17 years. The families, who lost heirlooms - including war medals - when Jaime McKillop broke into their homes, said they expected him to get a "slap on the wrist" because judges were out of touch with community expectations. District Court Judge Paul Conlon, sitting in Wollongong, jailed McKillop, 37, for 17 years and ordered he spend at least 12 years behind bars before applying for parole.

PLEASANTON — An Alameda County Superior Court judge has been admonished by a state commission for making inappropriate remarks during proceedings in her Pleasanton courtroom. The decision Tuesday by the Commission of Judicial Practice — which investigates complaints about state judges — cited several statements made by Judge Christine Moruza that were harsh, personal or showed bias toward a defendant. The commission cited a February 2007 domestic violence case that Moruza referred to as a waste of the court's time after the victim did not want to proceed with her trial. When the deputy district attorney tried to counter, Moruza...

ATLANTA (Reuters) – A court in Atlanta sentenced a convicted murderer on Saturday to life in prison after he killed a judge in a courtroom and three other people in stunning escape from custody, prosecutors said. Brian Nichols was widely expected to receive the death penalty for a series of murders committed in March 2005 that gained instant notoriety and sparked a huge police and FBI manhunt. He was convicted in November. But after several days of deliberation this week the jury was deadlocked 9-3 on whether Nichols, 37, should receive life without parole or execution by lethal injection. Under...

New technology? It's all a mistake Italian bloggers are up in arms at a court ruling early this year that suggests almost all Italian blogs are illegal. This month, a senior Italian politician went one step further, warning that most web activity is likely to be against the law. The story begins back in May, when a judge in Modica (in Sicily) found local historian and author Carlo Ruta guilty of the crime of "stampa clandestina" – or publishing a "clandestine" newspaper – in respect of his blog. The judge ruled that since the blog had a headline, that made...

The chasm between those who want President-elect Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate to verify his eligibility to hold the nation's highest office and those who simply support the Democrat is widening. "The Constitution means what we today decide it means," opined one participant on a new WND forum that offers readers an opportunity to express their opinion on the birth certificate dispute.

The co-chairman of the state legislature's judiciary committee wants a full review of allegations that a judge charged with drunken driving last month angrily hurled epithets at police officers during her arrest, called a black state police sergeant n***** and told officers she was a state judge.

The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline issued an order today that permanently removes Judge Elizabeth Halverson from the bench. Judge Halverson was suspended from the bench in July 2007. She lost a recent bid for re-election in the August primary election. She faced a disciplinary hearing in August on charges of misconduct. After two weeks of hearings in August, the commission heard a dozen complaints, including that the judge was accused of sleeping on the bench and treating her staff like servants. “Some judges are in office for an entire career and do not accumulate the type of dismal professional...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A judge has ordered McDonald's Corp. to pay $2.4 million in attorney fees to a former employee forced to strip after someone called a Mount Washington restaurant posing as a police officer. Louise Ogborn sued McDonald's and was awarded $5 million in punitive damages and about $1.1 million in compensatory damages in October 2007. McDonald's has appealed, and the case is pending at the Kentucky Court of Appeals. The lawsuit claimed the fast-food giant failed to warn her and other employees about other similar calls at other McDonald's stores and fast-food restaurants. Judge Tom McDonald approved...

A Tarrant County felony court judge arrested Saturday for suspicion of driving while intoxicated was driving 92 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone and had several empty beer cans in her car, Alvarado Police Chief John Allen said.Alvarado police officers stopped State District Judge Elizabeth Berry’s gray Volvo SUV at 4:07 p.m. for speeding in the northbound lanes of Interstate 35W, Allen said Tuesday.During the stop, officers "observed that she had numerous empty and almost empty beer cans in her car," Allen said. The officers also thought she appeared intoxicated.Officers attempted to perform a field sobriety test but...

Philadelphia was the birthplace of freedom in this nation, given that the Declaration of Independence was signed there. But things have a way of coming full circle when one reads history, and it is happening again: the birthplace of freedom is proving to be the dying place, as well. We can start with a liberal judge removing GOP Election Board members from "at least" half a dozen polling locations. As Amanda Carpenter reports, "A Pennsylvania judge previously ruled that court-appointed poll watchers could be NOT removed from their boards by an on-site election judge, but that is exactly what is...

Veterans in Politics Talk Show Introduces Bob Beers and Michael Villani LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net November 1st: Bob Beers Republican candidate and State Senator for Nevada State, District 6: Michael Villani Judge and candidate for Clark County District Court Department 17: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you can call in and speak to the guest or/and host at (702) 942-7371.

<p>PHILADELPHIA October 25, 2008 (AP) The Associated Press A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's qualifications to be president.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick on Friday night rejected the suit by attorney Philip J. Berg, who alleged that Obama was not a U.S. citizen and therefore ineligible for the presidency. Berg claimed that Obama is either a citizen of his father's native Kenya or became a citizen of Indonesia after he moved there as a boy.</p>

I just posted this over at Townhall.com In Re: Judge Dismissing BO Birth Certificate Case Thought it might be of interest. --------------------------------------------------- While doing a little of my own "Fact-Checking", I ran across some interesting linkage between U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick and one Barack H. Obama. As we all know, Barack and Michelle worked at Sidley Austin law when they met. Also working with Michelle at Sidley at the same time was one Bernardine Dohrn, beloved wife of Bill Ayers. Now it turns out a fellow named Christopher B. Seaman is the former law clerk for U.S. District...

A federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton broke judicial rules to contribute to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign on multiple occasions. Utah's chief federal judge, Tena Campbell, violated the Judicial Code of Conduct and give hundreds of dollars to the Democratic Party nominee, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Federal Election Commission campaign disclosures reveal Campbell described herself as a "lawyer" employed by the government and gave $100 to Obama's campaign Aug. 28, 2007. She gifted additional funds totaling $300. The seventh canon of the Judicial Code of Conduct states, "A judge should not … solicit funds for or pay...

NEW YORK – New York City can continue to ban public school teachers from wearing political campaign buttons in schools, a judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said the school policy of banning campaign buttons seemed to reflect a good faith judgment by the Board of Education about the impact of the buttons rather than an attempt to favor one viewpoint over another. But in the Friday ruling, Kaplan also said teachers can post political content on union bulletin boards or distribute it in teacher mailboxes. The teachers filed the lawsuit a week ago claiming that the policy...