Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench

[Roc2020]

Source: Reuters

In the past dozen years, state and local judges have repeatedly escaped public accountability for misdeeds that have victimized thousands. Nine of 10 kept their jobs, a Reuters investigation found – including an Alabama judge who unlawfully jailed hundreds of poor people, many of them Black, over traffic fines.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-judges-misconduct/

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Goes hand in hand with the protests. The corrupt judges and judicial system should be right up there with law enforcement with defund/dismantle reform/remake.

[LiberalFighter]

1. All of them need to be removed and lose their pension.

[Scruffy1]

8. It is pretty much impossible to remove someones pension.

those benefits earned are part and parcel of the payroll. It's not going to happen and I don't think it's a good idea to change. Imageine if the Republican party could take away the pensions of public servants. They would kiss ass even more.

[iemitsu]

2. The judicial system needs an overhaul

just like the police forces.
We need to have some justice in America.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Entrenched justice

I'm sure most lawyers are ethical, but it's a system that grows and grows. Many intergenerational firms. Everybody's been a lawyer for 75 years, they do business with the state, the judicial system needs more money, larger courthouses, more jails, fees go up to pay for it all. It's a legal Leviathan.

[mahina]

4. Holy crap.

[thesquanderer]

5. This is something else Biden should campaign on fixing. n/t

[Roc2020]

6. yes. it's been swept under the rug

for far too long. these judges get away with so much corruption and bad behavior. Definitely should be an election topic.

[TheFourthMind]

7. Cogs in the wheel of the Prison-Industrial Complex. Police. Judge. Prison. Repeat. nt

[not_the_one]

9. Just a suggestion...

Biden's transition team should make a list of every one of these judges who broke laws or oaths in ways that can be documented.

On January 21st, notify ALL of them that they have two choices. Resign, effective immediately, or they will be impeached.

Then do just that. They can resign, or face 24/7 hell.

If the tsunami is big enough, and the # of democratic senate seats is high enough we could very well have the votes to do it.

Hell, we could start with Kavanaugh and Thomas. Kavanaugh lied to Congress. Thomas would just resign. He wouldn't have to guts to stay.

And then go down the judgeship food chain. We could more than compensate the damage the turd has done to the judicial system.

Again, just a thought.

[usajumpedtheshark]

10. Unfortunately

I don't think Biden could do much about state and local judges.