Is that so?
Posted on 12/19/2024 5:10:24 PM PST by CFW
WASHINGTON—Amid collapsing public confidence in U.S. courts, a federal judge has been found culpable of misconduct. The offense? Questioning the ethics of a Supreme Court justice.
U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor published an essay in the New York Times arguing that the display of flags associated with President-elect Donald Trump’s MAGA movement at Justice Samuel Alito’s Virginia and New Jersey homes was a breach of public trust. The piece was unusual because judges don’t typically offer personal criticisms of a colleague in public.
According to the jurist assigned to review the matter, Chief Judge Albert Diaz of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., it was Ponsor who damaged the judiciary. In a previously unreported order filed last week, Diaz found that by commenting on controversial issues and criticizing Alito, Ponsor violated the code of conduct that applies to all federal judges other than Supreme Court justices.
Among other transgressions, Ponsor, a 1994 Clinton appointee who sits in Springfield, Mass., was found to violate rules against actions that “detract from the dignity” of a judge’s office and harm “public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.” The judiciary has reason to be concerned about its perception. A Gallup survey published Tuesday found that public confidence in America’s courts had fallen by 24 percentage points since 2020, to a historic low of 35%.
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Judge Broke Rules by Criticizing Justice Alito During Flag Flap
Winning!!!
Does anyone on SCOTUS really have any colleagues who are not on SCOTUS.
I bet you they see themselves as demi-Gods.
Sow what happens? Not a damn thing. The Marxist scumbag still gets to warn that bench until he dies.
“a federal judge has been found culpable of misconduct”
That’s quite a rare sequence of words.
Federal and state canons of judicial ethics require judges to refrain from public criticism of other judges. Otherwise, judges tend to talk and act like squabbling politicians — its just that they have to keep it private among themselves.
STRONG letter to follow.
Is that so?
“The piece was unusual because judges don’t typically offer”
Nothing is unusual when a ‘tard is behind the pen.
We should have never let these fking fools have a go at anything beyond holding a chair down at the nut house.
Our bad.
Charlie Kirk was talking about this today, what a crap stain on America. He also called this DEI hire “low IQ” and made me howl so loud I scared the cat, did not expect this from him...I’m still laughing as I thought that was reserved for Khumulah.
Also another guest on the show today (didn’t catch his name) suggested Vance might go for eight years after Trump making a twelve-year run. Perhaps by then it will be a 8-1 advantage on the SCOTUS.
Where is Traitor Roberts to come out and say there is nothing to see here and that ALL Federal Judges are as pure as the driven snow?
With a new sheriff in town, Roberts’ self-protective instinct will kick in and he will try to avoid drawing any attention to himself.
Roberts seemed to have “turtled” himself over the last few years...
With exceptions, most high level appellate judges think that they understand and are clever at politics because they climbed the greasy pole to attain their position. In practice, such judges tend to get things wrong when they get involved in political matters. Roberts got a hard lesson in how that works that and seems to have drawn back as a result.
What in the wide wide world of sports is that picture showing? Should I infer from the context that one of the unfortunate ladies onstage is a Supreme Court Justice? And what performance is that part of?
A big hit with LGBTQ, LMNOP crew apparently.
What a DUMBASS DEI SHE IS!
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