Why circuit Court Judge Mary James of Oregon must be removed from the bench.
Dear Nena Cook,
I read your article today in the Oregonian on measure 37. While any reasonable thinking person would agree with your assessment of our checks and balances, there is one wild card your are not considering. Judges of long ago knew their duty on the bench and approached it with unbiased fervor. Today's judges unlike their predecessors are very much biased, in fact, they are flat out planted there by one side or the other making them the most powerful politicians in our country. You would think that the term, " Judicial Politician" is an oxymoron, however it fully describes our current judges of today. The system is broken. Our judges of today are about as honorable as constituency that placed them there or that of a judge in some corrupt third world country. This, Ms. Cook, is precisely the reason why the "Checks and Balances" do not function. Judge Mary James was placed in a position of power to be the strong arm to fulfill the wishes of her constituency, period, and any reasonable thinking person can see that. Yes, she most certainly needs to be removed. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
John P. Wilson
posted by John Wilson at 9:37 PM
7 Comments:
Hi John Wilson,
Awesome post!
Hi John Wilson,
Sounds great.
The basic problem with all that you say is that it isn't true. "Judges Of Old" were just as corrupt, if not more so, than what we have today. Back in the 1930s, FDR tried to "stack" the Supreme court with "like minded" jurists. He was successfully halted in this process but the point is, if he thought the way you did, i.e. all judges are impartial, then there would have been no need to stack the court. A judge is a judge is a judge.
Back in Missouri in the late 1920s, a man who controlled local politics was instrumental in getting individuals appointed or elected to judicial positions based upon what they would do for him. His name was Thomas Pendergast and he was the one that started the political carreer of Harry S. Truman. The eventual knowledge that Truman had been associated with Pendergast nearly ruined his carreer and he wisly distanced himself from him.
Pendergast simply operated in a manner that was quite common in this country going back to New York's Tammany Hall of the mid-19th century and before.
While our forefathers attempted a completely unbiased legal system headed by people of unquestionable charactor, the simple fact of the matter is that people are people. Judges engaged in bribery is as commom an occurance today as it has ever been. That a judge in Oregon would decide a case based upon the will of a politician that placed him or her in power, especially on a level such as a municipal or district court judge, should be no surprise. Judges with any ethics at all are usually steamrolled if they don't "toe the party line" and find themselves unable to ascend any higher in their carreers.
Just my opinion.
Hi John Wilson,
Sounds great.
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Hi John Wilson,
Awesome post!
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