Saturday, May 21, 2011

11-05-21 FBI Director Robert Mueller Must Go! // Director del FBI debe continuar! // 联邦调查局局长必须去!


Public corruption has reached a level never seen for a century. Corruption of the justice system in Los Angeles County and beyond is at the core of the current financial crisis. Unless corruption of the justice system is addressed, economic development and civil society conditions are unlikely to improve.
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Los Angeles, May 21 – news reports indicate that President Obama is seeking extension of FBI Director Robert Mueller’s tenure by two years. [[i]]
“Public corruption has reached a level never seen for a century,” says Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert (NGO), “Mueller must go.”
Under the tenure of FBI Director Robert Mueller and Assistant FBI Director for Criminal Investigations Kenneth Kaiser:
·        Retroactive immunities (“pardons”) were signed for all judges and commissioners of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles County, California, who had taken “not permitted” payments (“bribes”). [[ii]]
·        United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) issued an official Staff Report referring to “corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California”. [[iii]] The report was based on evidence submitted to the HRC of large-scale false imprisonments and financial/real estate fraud by judges of the Court.
·        The International Criminal Bar posted a complaint for racketeering against the Los Angeles Superior Court. [[iv]]
·        Lecture on corruption of the Court was accepted for presentation in the 16th World Criminology Congress. [[v]]
·        Large-scale fraud was opined in Sustain, the case management system of the Los Angeles Superior Court, which enables the conduct of simulated litigation of cases in violation of the law. The opinion was supported by opinion of international computer science scholar. [[vi]]
·        Fraud was opined in the case management system of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, which enables large-scale false imprisonments, with no legal foundation.  The opinion was reviewed and published in an international computer science journal with an Editorial Board listing scholars from six European nations and Canada. [[vii]]
Regardless of the overwhelming evidence of widespread corruption of the justice system in Los Angeles County, California, the most populous in the United States, and even after inquiries by US Congress, FBI has refused to take action. [[viii], [ix]]
Through such conduct, FBI and US Department of Justice permitted Los Angeles County to become “Fraud Capital, USA”, and the “epicenter of the epidemic of real estate and mortgage fraud”. [[x]]
“The next FBI Director should be the best qualified person from outside the FBI, who is not a member of the judiciary,” says Dr Zernik.
Corruption of the justice system, in Los Angeles County and beyond, is at the core of the current financial crisis. Unless corruption of the justice system is addressed, economic development and civil society conditions are unlikely to improve. [[xi]]
"This case should demonstrate that the FBI will pursue all allegations of judicial corruption vigorously, as public corruption violations are among the most serious of all criminal conduct and can tear at the fabric of a democratic society," said John F. Pikus, special agent in charge of the Albany division, in a prepared statement. (December 2008)
LINKS:

[ii] 09-02-14 California Senate bill providing retroactive immunities ("pardons") for all judges who took "not permitted" payments ("bribes").SBX2-11
[iii] 10-04-19 Human Rights Alert (NG0) submission to the  United Nations Human Rights Council  for the 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States as incorporated into the UPR staff report, with reference to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession".
[iv] 11-05-15 Racketeering complaint against David Pasternak and the Los Angeles Superior Court posted by the International Criminal Bar (ICB); international criminal indictment more likely against Rampart Judge Jacqueline A Connor.
[v]  Zernik, J:  Corruption of the Courts and the Legal Profession in California Noted in a 2010 United Nations UPR Report, 16th World Criminology Congress, 2011
[vi] 09-04-20 Prof Eliyahu Shamir's Opinion Letter re: Sustain - the Case Management System of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles
[vii] 10-08-18 Zernik, J: Data Mining as a Civic Duty – Online Public Prisoners’ Registration Systems, International Journal on Social Media: Monitoring, Measurement, Mining 1: 84-96 (2010)
[viii] 11-01-07 Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California: Widespread Public Corruption and Refusal of US Department of Justice to Take Action
[ix] 10-10-15 Proposed Organizational Chart of the LA-JR (alleged Los Angeles Judiciary Racket)
[x] 11-04-28 PRESS RELEASE: Los Angeles  –  “Fraud Capital, USA” – Correction to Los Angeles Times Report
[xi] 11-04-21 PRESS RELEASE: "In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures" - Because of widespread corruption of the justice system, they are effectively immune…
The widespread corruption of the US justice system is a key factor in the financial crisis, which is often overlooked.

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11-05-21 NEF (Notice of Electronic Filing) Key Element in Fraud in PACER and CM/ECF // Fraude en las computadoras de los Tribunales de EE.UU. // 欺诈在美国法院的计算机


Notice of Electronic Filing


The Notice of Electronic Filing (NEF) is part of the system established by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts through the dual docketing and access systems of PACER &CM/ECF.[1] The NEF purportedly provides the authentication of the service of an electronically-filed pleading or other filing by parties, or of service of the electronically-filed orders and judgments of the courts, upon attorneys in the case who have been permitted by the court to participate in electronic filing in CM/ECF. Therefore, for such parties, the NEF replaced the traditional certificate of service or proof of service. Likewise, the graphic hand-signatures in traditional certificates of service were replaced in NEFs by digitally encrypted,alphanumeric "checksum" strings. Effectively, the NEF today is the evidence of entry of court minutes, orders, and judgments, and therefore, it is of critical significance.
 

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Sources of information

The central source for information regarding NEFs remains in CM/ECF manuals.[2][3][4][5]
For example, the most explicit definition of the power and effect of NEF in the Central District of California, one of the most populous in the U.S., including Los Angeles County, remained in the "Unofficial Manual" of CM/ECF as follows (Rev 07, 2008, page 13):[2]
L. The Notice of Electronic Filing
The system will present you with a Notice of Electronic Filing (“NEF”) screen and will also e-mail you a copy of the NEF. The Notice of Electronic Filing (“NEF”) is your proof that the document has been E-Filed. You should print the screen to a piece of paper or a PDF (or both) before proceeding, because you will need to attach the NEF as the last page of the courtesy copy that you submit to the Court. The NEF includes a “document number” and a link. Be sure to note that document number, as you will need it if you need to e-mail a proposed order to the Court. The NEF also includes an “Electronic Document Stamp” which is a string of letters and numbers which Court staff can use to verify the authenticity of the NEF. The NEF also contains the path and file name of the document you uploaded and any attachments.
A more specific definition is found in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Administrative Policies and Procedures for Electronic Filing. [6]
Section 2: Definitions and Related Requirements: (page 5)
h. Notice of Electronic Filing (“NEF”) is an electronic notice automatically generated by the Electronic Filing System at the time a document is docketed. The NEF includes the time of filing and docketing, the name of the party and Filing User filing the document, the type of document, the text of the docket entry, the name of the party and Filing User receiving the notice. If a document is attached to the docket entry, the NEF will contain a Hyperlink to the filed document allowing recipients to retrieve the document.
Section 7: Consequences of Electronic Filing (page 11)
a. Electronic transmission of a document through the Electronic Filing System constitutes the filing of the document pursuant to Rule 5(e), FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, and Rule 49, FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
b. The transmission of a NEF constitutes entry on the docket pursuant to Rules 58 and 79, FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, and Rules 49 and 55, FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
Section 16: Notice of Court Orders and Judgments
a. Immediately upon entry of an order or judgment, the Clerk will transmit a NEF to Filing Users. Transmission of the NEF constitutes the notice required by Rule 77(d), FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, and Rule 49(c), FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. The Clerk will send paper copies of orders and judgments to non-Filing Users.
The General Order 08-02 of the US District Court, Central District of California provided additional information, pertaining to the significance of the "electronic document stamp" in the process of entry: [7]
IV. Electronic Filing. (page 17)
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O. Certification of Electronic Documents. Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 44(a)(1) and 44(c), the method of electronic certification described herein is deemed proof of an official court record maintained by the Clerk of Court. The NEF contains the date of electronic distribution and identification of the United States District Court for the Central District of California as the sender. An encrypted verification code appears in the electronic document stamp section of the NEF. The electronic document stamp shall be used for the purpose of confirming the authenticity of the transmission and associated document(s) with the Clerk of Court, as necessary. When a document has been electronically filed into CMIECF, the official record is the electronic recording of the document kept in the custody of the Clerk of Court. The NEF provides certification that the associated document(s) is a true and correct copy of the original filed with the court.
Although such information is derived from disparate US courts, it can be assumed to be universally applicable, since the basic platforms of PACER and CM/ECF were universally implemented in all US courts.
Figure 1: Invalid, unsigned, traditional, paper Certificate of Service, by Clerk of the Court, US District Court, Northern District of California, 2010
Figure 2: NEF including an "electronic document stamp" - an encrypted alphanumeric "checksum" string (in red rectangle), Eastern District of California, 2004
Figure 3:Invalid NEF, missing the "electronic document stamp", US District Court, Central District of California, 2010
Figure 4:Invalid PACER docket notation, pertaining to Certificate of Mailing by the Clerk of the Court. The PACER docket notation was assigned no docket number, and no link to a record was provided. Therefore, in fact, there is no such document on record, and the document could not have been issued an NEF, and therefore was not deemed entered. US District Court, Northern District of Georgia, 2009

Significance

As documented, above, in the texts from the US District Courts in California and Texas, the NEF today is the definitive record indicating the entry of minutes, orders, and judgments of the US courts. The listing of such minutes, orders, and judgments in the PACER dockets, in itself, is not necessarily indicative of entry of such judicial records as valid and effectual records of the court.
Examples have been recorded in various US courts of minutes, orders, and judgments, which were published in the PACER dockets, but were not authenticated as entered through the issuance of a valid NEF. Obviously, such minutes, orders, and judgments are not deemed valid and effectual by the US courts. [8]

Criticism

Review (2010),[9] published in and international, peer-reviewed computer science journal with Editorial Board listing scholars from six (6) European nations and Canada, opined large-scale computer fraud in the design and operation of PACER and CM/ECF. The main points noted in the review were:
  1. All attestation/authentication records (NEFs - Notice of Electronic Filing) of judicial records (minutes, orders, judgments), which are required in order to render them such that command "full faith and credit", are concealed from public access. Therefore, the public is unable to distinguish valid and effectual records from void, not voidable records, both being published by the courts in PACER.
  2. The NEF was opined as invalid as to form: It lacks a certification statement "I, the undersigned, hereby certify...", it fails to state the name and authority of an individual, issuing the NEF as a Deputy Clerk of the Court.
  3. The NEF bears no valid signature, either graphic or digital. Instead - it carries a machine generated encrypted "checksum" string.
As shown in Figures 1, 3, and 4, the system is amenable to manipulations, where invalid PACER docket notations correspond to records that were never deemed entered, valid and effectual US court records. However, to a naive reader, such notations would appear as valid court records.
Therefore, the system as a whole was opined as undermining the accountability of the Court clerk for integrity of court records.

See also

References

  1. ^ PACER is a public-access system, to which access is permitted to any person, albeit for pay and after registration. CM/ECF is the Case Management/Electronic Court Filing system, available only to those permitted by a particular U.S. District or U.S. Court of Appeals.
  2. ^ a b Anderson's Unofficial Manual for e-filing at the Central district of California. No Official Manual existed.
  3. ^ Official Manual of the Eastern District of California
  4. ^ Official Manual of the Southern District of California
  5. ^ Compilations of Local Rules of U.S. District Courts
  6. ^ United States District Court for the Western District of Texas,Administrative Policies and Procedures for Electronic Filing, April 1, 2010
  7. ^ [US District Court Central District of California: General Order 08-02, February 7.2008]
  8. ^ Zernik,J Motion to Intervene in Log Cabin Republicans v USA et al(10-56634)in the US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, January 7, 2011
  9. ^ [1] Zernik, J: Data Mining of Online Judicial Records of the Networked US Federal Courts, International Journal on Social Media: Monitoring, Measurement, Mining, 1:69-83 (2010)

11-05-21 Profiting from Racketeering in the Courts // Aprovecharse del crimen organizado en las Cortes // 从敲诈勒索获利在法院

Profiting from Racketeering by Countrywide's Sandor Samuels - Rabbi Robert Wexler of American Jewish University refuses to respond

Widespread corruption of the justice system is at the core of the current financial crisis. However, refusal of the US government to take action is no excuse for the Los Angeles Jewish community to provide the front for racketeers.
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Rabbi Robert Wexler_ _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _  _Sandor Samuels
American Jewish University, Los Angeles _ _   Countrywide
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies _ _  _ _ _ Bank of America


Los Angeles, May 21 - "I have known Rabbi Wexler and his family for a few years," says Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert (NGO).  Regardless, Wexler, who heads the American Jewish University, Los Angeles, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies refuses to respond on Zernik's Jewish ethics question: [[i]]
Should Robert Wexler, the American Jewish University, Los Angeles, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies be considered direct beneficiaries of gains from racketeering by Countrywide's Sandor Samuels, who lists himself as Member of the Board?
Rabbi Wexler is not alone.  Others, who have refused to respond on related questions included:
  • The Anti Defamation League's (ADL) National Director Abraham Foxman, [[ii]]
  • Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard and Adat Ari El, Valley Village, [[iii]]
  • Rabbi Sharon Brous, Ikar Synagogue, Los Angeles
  • Rabbi Chaim Nochum Cunin, Chabad, Los Angeles
  • Rabbi Susan Leider, Temple Betham, Los Angeles
  • Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, UCLA Hillel [[iv]]
  • Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun Magazine [[v]]
  • UCLA Law Professor Richard Steinberg, who heads the UCLA Human Rights Forum [[vi]]
  • University of Chicago Law Professor and US Circuit Judge Richard Posner [[vii]]
"The roaring silence of the ADL is particularly surprising," says Zernik "They are not gun shy..."

In recent years Zernik has documented corruption of Bet Tzedek, the Los Angeles "House of Justice", an affiliate of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, where Samuels is President, and repeatedly reported that it has become a front for a racketeering enterprise.

Sandor Samuels, President of the Bet Tzedek, is the former Chief Legal Officer of Countrywide, where he described himself as "responsible for all litigation matters." He is also former Associate General Counsel of Bank of America.

"Any intelligent person, living in the US and following the news should recognize what is taking place in front of our eyes," says Zernik:
  • In January 2008 Countrywide collapsed, following the publication by the New York Times Pulitzer prize winner Morgenson of fraud by Countrywide's counsel in the US Court in Pennsylvania - filing of "recreated letters" as evidence. [[viii]]
  • In March 2008 news was published that the Hon Jeff Bohm, US Bankruptcy in Texas, issued a 72-page Memorandum Opinion, based on a yearlong study by the US Trustee's office, detailing fraud by Countrywide in courts across the United States. [[ix]] According to the Memorandum Opinion, Countrywide promised the Hon Bohm to cease such conduct.
  • The evidence shows that Mr Samuels nevertheless continued the same conduct in the courts as Associate General Counsel of Bank of America until very recently. [[x]] 
  • Fraud in the courts against homeowners across the United States by Bank of America has been repeatedly reported over the past two years.
The report of the Hon Jeff Bohm from Texas is unique, because it is a case, where a US judge stood up to the corruption.  However, the report documents that judges across the United States collude in the corruption.  Likewise, the evidence produced by Zernik documented collusion of numerous Los Angeles judges, many of them Jewish, in the corruption.

"Sandor Samuels is central to one of the biggest frauds in history against homeowners, against shareholders, and against the US Treasury," says Zernik, "Widespread bribing of state and US judges by Countrywide and Bank of America is most likely a key part of it." [[xi]] 

Of note, California and US judges have refused in recent years to file statements on the record regarding benefits to them from Countrywide or Bank of America: [[xii]]

  • US Judge Virginia Phillips
  • US Magistrate Carla Woehrle
  • California Judge Terry Friedman
  • California Judge Peter Meeka
Samuels has most likely been the central figure in such large-scale bribing of judges by Countrywide and Bank of America.

"Samuels has been using Bet Tzedek - the Los Angeles 'House of Justice' - as a front for a racketeering enterprise," says Zernik, "and the Greater Los Angeles Jewish Federation has been aware of it in recent years."

A highly decorated FBI veteran opined fraud and recommended FBI investigation in a case, which was in part perpetrated by Samuels in his capacity as President of Bet Tzedek on the grounds of Bet Tzedek. The case involved collusion by current and former officers of Bet Tzedek: [[xiii]]

  • SANDOR SAMUELS, current and former President;
  • DAVID PASTERNAK, former President (possibly current member of the Board of Directors)
  • TERRY FRIEDMAN, former Executive Director.
The same FBI veteran explained that FBI would not take action against the perpetrators, since they were part of the widespread corruption of Los Angeles judges. [[xiv]]

Evidence pertaining to corruption of Samuels and Pasternak was also part of the evidence that led to the 2010 Human Rights Council of the United Nations report, which stated "corruption of the courts and the legal profession" in California. [[xv]]

The New York Times Pulitzer prize winner Morgenson has repeatedly questioned the failure of the US government to prosecute banking executives in the ongoing financial crisis. [[xvi]] 

"Given the widespread corruption of judges, banking executives are effectively immune," says Zernik, "The widespread corruption of the justice system is at the core of the current financial crisis. However, refusal of the US government to take action is no excuse for the Los Angeles Jewish community to provide the front for racketeers."

LINKS
[i] 11-05-18 Request for Jewish Ethics Perspective by Rabbi Robert Wexler, President of the American Jewish University, Los Angeles, regarding his benefits from racketeering by Countrywide's Sandor Samuels
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55748695/
[ii] 11-05-05 PRESS RELEASE: Anti Defamation League'
s Abraham Foxman is asked to opine on allegations of Public Corruption, Racketeering in the Los Angeles Jewish/Legal Community
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54666630/
[iii] 11-05-18 PRESS RELEASE: Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard and Adat Ari El, Valley Village � willful beneficiaries of Sandor Samuels� criminality
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55687476/
[iv] 11-05-13 PRESS RELEASE: Los Angeles Rabbis Sharon Brous (Ikar Synagogue), Chaim Nochum Cunin (Chabad), Susan Leider (Temple Betham), Chaim Seidler-Feller (UCLA Hillel) are Asked to Opine on Fraud/Racketeering in the Courts by Jewish attorneys and judges
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55314602/
[v] 11-05-10 PRESS RELEASE: Tikkun�s Rabbi Lerner�s Response on Additional Jewish Ethics Questions Related to "Corruption of the Courts and the Legal Profession�
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55222710/
[vi] 11-05-07 Press Release - UCLA Law Professor Richard Stein Berg, A Human Rights Expert, Is Asked to Opine Regarding Human Rights in Los Angeles, California
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54839618/
[vii] 11-05-09 PRESS RELEASE: Richard Posner, University of Chicago Law Professor, Asked for Ethics Opinions Regarding Racketeering in the Los Angeles Courts, Bet Tzedek, and ADL
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55006209/
[viii] 08-01-08 Case of Borrower Hills (01-22574) - in the US Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. Countrywide's Three "Recreated Letters" and a Transcript
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25003494/
[ix] 08-03-05 Case of Borrower William Parsley (05-90374), Dkt #248: Judge Jeff Bohm's Memorandum Opinion, rebuking Countrywide's litigation practices, Countrywide's false outside counsel scheme - appearances by counsel who are not Counsel of Record, with "no communications with clients" clause:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25001966/
[x] 10-07-06 Complaint Filed with US Attorney Office Los Angeles against Sandor Samuels and others, alleging Racketeering
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33971099/
[xi] 09-00-00 Pahis, S: Corruption in Our Courts: What It Looks Like and Where It is Hidden, The Yale Law Journal, 118:1900 (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55677431/
[xii] 11-04-12 PRESS RELEASE: Bribing of State and US Judges by Bank of America Must be a Serious Concern!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52846502/
[xiii] 07-12-17 Samaan v Zernik (SC087400) David Pasternak: Grant Deeds in re: 320 South Peck Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, opined as fraud by James Wedick
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24991238/
[xiv] 08-08-21 Samaan v Zernik (SC087400) Email letter by highly decorated FBI veteran James Wedick regarding  FBI�s refusal to provide Dr Zernik equal protection
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29713733/
[xv] 10-04-19 Human Rights Alert (NG0) submission to the  United Nations Human Rights Council  for the 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States as incorporated into the UPR staff report, with reference to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession".
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
[xvi] 11-04-21 PRESS RELEASE:  NYT: "In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures" - Because of widespread corruption of the justice system, they are effectively immune
http://www.scribd.com/doc/53520603/
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Joseph Zernik, PhD
Human Rights Alert (NGO)
 
Human Rights Alert is dedicated to discovering, archiving, and disseminating evidence of Human Rights violations by the justice systems of the State of California and the United States in Los Angeles County, California, and beyond. Human Rights Alert focuses on the unique role of computerized case management systems in the precipitous deterioration of the integrity of the justice system in the United States.
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WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
* "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/
Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
* "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
* "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted."    
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/
* "Innocent people remain in prison"
* "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306 /
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
* "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
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"On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
* "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others."
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
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WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..."
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/
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WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/
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