Posted on 04/09/2025 3:33:17 PM PDT by willk
Dozens of administrative law judges grant disability payments to almost everyone who appears before them, overriding Social Security staff who determined the people were not entitled to payments, a Daily Wire analysis found.
One of the Social Security Administration’s “regional chief administrative law judges,” Jennifer M. Horne, who leads the San Francisco hearing office, ruled in every case she heard last year that the claimant should be granted disability payments, even though in each case, two previous examinations had found the claimant should be denied. Ronald Herman, hearing cases outside of Detroit, green lit payments in 95% of the 1,268 cases he heard. Jan Leventer, hearing cases in Queens and Detroit, approved 94% of 2,159 cases, potentially amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Isn’t there some kiond of crime they can be charged with?
Like SS fraud in this case?
Autopen for rent?
The courts have repeatedly held that bad decisions are not criminal and can’t be prosecuted. It would be a tough fight.
Hold them personally liable.
Hold them personally liable, because if it were you or I, they would issue civil forfeiture judgements against us until Pigs fly. (Even if they were Pigs flying as a result of USAID NGO money laundering. )
Fire them. I believe you can fire administrative judges...these are not appointments.
Can’t prosecute (probably) but can fire.
Purely anecdotal, I know, but when I visited the local SS office when I retired, it seemed like I was the only one there, aside from the security guard, with grey hair. Everyone else was there for something other than old-age benefits.
Just like judges at the FISC
The problem is that the US government relies too much on fixed rate taxation.
If tax rates were adjusted annually based on previous fiscal year costs, there would be feedback pressure to adjust things.
They were there forSSI. A bigger fraud
I don’t think so. If they fully disclosed why they should get SSA disability benefits, the judge made the final decision.
Judges overriding Doctors ,LOL
well we can fire them can’t we? that would be a good start.
Judges have as much leeway as prosecutors. It was meant so the law would not be used as a weapon to prosecute absurdities. It is now being used as a weapon to bring down the country.
Remove their hands, that way they cannot hold a rubber stamp.
Seriously, we are almost 3 months into PDJT second term. Has anyone kept a running total of ANY FedGov heads that have rolled since then???!!! Other than the newly unemployed paper pushers.
I don’t care! I want ACTION. NOW.
Speaking of judges....BREAKING: The U.S. House passes HR 1526, curbing the power of district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions against presidential policies—aimed at restraining judicial overreach.
Now let’s see if the Senate GOP has any backbone or if Thune just lets the Bill sit on his desk and takes no action. Or if it makes it to a vote, will Collins, Murkowski, Graham, etc side with their “good friends across the aisle”?
Throw him in PRISON.
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