Posted on 10/01/2021 4:04:39 AM PDT by gattaca
A federal district court judge in Texas who was appointed by former President Barack Obama has repeatedly violated ethics standards, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Judge Rodney Gilstrap of Marshall, Texas, in the Eastern District of Texas, failed to disqualify himself in 138 cases over eight years in which he or a family member had a financial interest in a company involved in the case before him, according to the Journal.
The Journal recently published the results of an investigation into judicial flouting of a 1974 federal law that bans judges from ruling in cases where they or a family member have an interest, even when assets are held in a trust.
Although Gilstrap is one of 131 judges the Journal said broke the rules, his 138 cases make up about 20 percent of the 685 cases between 2010 and 2018 in which the Journal found the law was violated.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
Our federal judiciary is at least as corrupt as the rest of the fedgov. We have a lot of work to do...
Not surprising in the least.
Doesn’t sound like he’s going to be punished at all.
They can be because someone has their back. We need to remove those someones
I feel an Ozymandias moment coming...it is inevitable because of what is happening in this country.
Until these corrupt, leftist judges are removed from the bench, we are spinning our wheels for actual reform. The lifetime appointment should come with required judicial performance standards; too many reversed decisions not based on sound constitutional law and you’re fired.
Gives new meaning to hangin judge.
no accountability EVER,
from the FIB
to the DO”J”
to the murderous, antiAmerican BLACKROBES.
without accountability NOW, America will die
in pain from the RINOs and DNC and their
treason led by the CCP, Vatican and the Maltese-run-SCOTUS.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Doesn’t sound like he’s going to be punished at all.
Nope, not at all
Look up what happened to Sisamnes when he got caught.
L
I would think that every one of these cases would be able to be appealed because these judges failed to recuse themselves.
The clowns left the circus and took an indoor job at the courthouse. /sarc
......and........nothing is done about it, but to give him more conflict of interest cases.
Gil strap has been involved for decades in software “patent troll” cases. At one point Gilstrap handled 25% of all patent cases in the US. His courtroom is notorious for being patent holder friendly, no matter how bad the patent
He has been notorious for favoring useless “do it on a computer” patents.
I’m in shock by the rapid decline 😳
But it’s not unexpected
Just the rapidity
Isn’t this the REASON anyone wants to be a judge? So one can be partial in cases where one has an interest?
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