10-01-03 WSJ on corruption at the United States Courts - added a comment.

DECEMBER 31, 2009, 8:02 AM ET

Judicial Misconduct: The Mice Guard The Cheese

By Nathan Koppel

Does the federal judiciary do a good enough job investigating misconduct complaints against its fellow judges?

It’s an oft debated topic that gets a particularly detailed airing today in this Houston Chronicle piece.

A spate of recent high-profile complaints against judges, including the sexual-abuse charges against former Texas federal judge Samuel Kent (pictured), has prompted experts and members of Congress alike to call for reforms and more disclosure of federal disciplinary decisions, the Chron reports. (Click here and here for LB coverage of the Kent case.)

Comment added:

by Joseph Zernik

Please notice the large-scale fraud in United States courts across the country - in operation of  PACER & CM/ECF - the courts' dual case management and public access systems:

1) The U.S. Courts have completed the installation, with no authority at all, of the dual systems, Pacer & CM/ECF, separate and unequal, where the courts can segregate parties at will.

2) Those segregated into Pacer (attorneys who are not authorized by the court for a given case, and invariably all pro se filers and all prisoners who file petitions) are unable to distinguish the valid and effectual court records among the large volume of invalid and ineffectual records posted online, since they are denied access to the NEFs (Notices of Electronic Filings).

3) Therefore, litigations are conducted under such conditions - where some parties, but not others, are left in the dark relative to the validity and effect of any records posted in the docket by the court during litigation.

4) Such conditions in litigations in United States Courts, are likely to be found by International Human Rights Courts to be extreme violation of Human Rights by the United States Government and United States Courts.

5) The solution: publicly accountable validation (certified functional logic verification) of such systems in the courts -- pursuant to the Rulemaking Enabling Act.