Yes, it is surprising that it would be our old friend Judge Lamberth, the chief judge in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, who helped do Rosen in.
Here are some links:
Judge Lamberth Overturns Ruling of Two Judges
Wait a minute. Royce Lamberth? Do you have a link for that?
Yes, it is surprising that it would be our old friend Judge Lamberth, the chief judge in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, who helped do Rosen in.
Here are some links:
Judge Lamberth Overturns Ruling of Two Judges
Royce Lamberth knows the DOJ is full of crooks. See http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/03/30/royce-lamberth-lets-make-a-deal/
At http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-22/world/39440575_1_federal-court-documents-search-and-arrest-warrants it’s reported that he blames his staff for the warrants not being reported - 3 warrants in 2010 involving Rosen.
At http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/how-justice-fought-to-keep-rosens-warrant-secret.html it says that 2 judges ruled that Rosen had to be notified, and then Machen appealed to Royce Lamberth, who overturned the other 2 judges in September of 2010.
On July 25, 2011, Lamberth blasted Orly Taitz for claiming that Lamberth’s staff was sabotaging her filings. See http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/scolded_by_another_federal_judge_birther_attorney_orly_taitz_blames_court/ . He called her claims “hysterical” and accusatory and used the clerical errors - that Taitz said were inserted by Lamberth’s own clerks - as a reason to throw out her case. It’s bitter irony that he is now very publicly having to claim the same thing about his own clerks (although he is claiming it is accident or incompetence rather than deliberate sabotage... (according to link below, the error included filing Lamberth’s order under a number that doesn’t fit any PACER search parameter and failing to link to the order as being related to any of the related cases). Lamberth had ruled that Rosen didn’t have to be notified of the warrant, but it seems that Lamberth’s clerks made sure that even after it was unsealed the warrant would not show up in a search regarding any of the players in the Rosen/Jin-Woo Kim case. Main Justice only stumbled across it using the search term “Jonathan Malis” (Assistant US Attorney in Washington DC) while investigating a different issue.
Nov 7, 2011 the affidavit was ordered unsealed (at http://www.mainjustice.com/2013/05/21/james-rosen-criminal-leak-investigation-was-disclosed-18-months-ago-hidden-in-court-records/ but it doesn’t say who ordered it unsealed. Maybe the judge who originally approved the warrant under seal? Magistrate Judge Alan Kay? Maybe that was the condition for approval - that it be unsealed at that time? I don’t know how this stuff works).
The same kind of “filing error” was made in Justia regarding the Minor v Happersett case (deleting cross-references so people searching for the related cases would not be able to find it) but this appears to be the same kind of thing done with the GOVERNMENTAL court listings (PACER).
I don’t have time to research this now (probably took more time than I should have, just trying to understand it to the point I do now) but it seems to me that Lamberth owes Orly Taitz an apology - and somebody needs to be finding out who these clerks in Lamberth’s office are, who make mistakes that always seem to benefit Obama and his regime... (I wonder if they are related to the clerks who screwed up the appeal of Malihi’s decision in GA, so that the appeal was decided before the clerks had allowed a case to even be FILED... And of course we all remember Donofrio’s troubles with SCOTUS stay clerk, Bickel -I can’t remember his first name)
Maybe somebody can do some research on this. It was 4 months after Lamberth ridiculed Taitz (for what she said was his own clerks’ sabotage) that Lamberth’s clerks filed Holder’s affidavit in such a way that it could not be located through PACER.
Also - does somebody know if PACER includes state court records? Or does it only include federal cases? A letter I got from them says “The login and password listed above allow read-only access to all courts running nationally supported PACER products including CM/ECF.” I know they’ve got states listed in their search parameters; I wonder if the state courts use the products referenced above so that those records are searchable through PACER.
Anybody know if tax liens (in a state which is listed as searchable in PACER) should be viewable through PACER?
Interesting thing about PACER; they just changed the account security so that it requires birthdate.