#Justice Brett #Kavanaugh said Thurs that he is “hopeful” #SCOTUS soon will take specific steps to deal w/ #ethics issues at the court & boost public confidence in the institution.

Kavanaugh made the comments while speaking at a conference of #judges & #lawyers, after he was asked by Judge Stephanie Dawkins Davis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit about “perceived ethics issues” at the high court.

#law #legal #JudicialEthics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/07/justice-kavanaugh-ethics-supreme-court/

Same sex unions take a limited step forward in Hong Kong #EconTwitter #hongkong #judges #repugnance #samesexmarriage
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2023/09/same-sex-unions-take-limited-step.html

Protest against political persecution of Prof Muhammad Yunus, and more general threats to democracy in Bangladesh #EconTwitter #bangladesh #judges #openletter #politics #postnobel
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2023/09/protest-against-political-persecution.html

#Judges to make criminals other than ones with the surname Jeffries to force them to attend court for sentencing.Letby should take them to court over that.Fortunately Johnson should have the full benefit of this new law!!

More broadly, insofar as there is a Liberal philosophy of how to interpret the law, a Liberal government *ought* to appoint judges who share that philosophy, and lawyers who believe in that philosophy would be expected to donate to the Liberals more than to other parties. The person mentioned in the article whom I know has been a genuine Liberal for thirty years, not just in order to gain something.

#CanPol #cdnpoli #judges

Of those who donated, 76% of appointees gave to the Liberals, but the article doesn't say how that compares with when the Tories were in power — I wouldn't be surprised if even then most donors were Liberal donors, given the typical politics of Canadian lawyers. So the idea that unqualified lawyers are buying their way to the bench is not really supported by the facts.

2/3

#CanPol #cdnpoli #judges

#LeonardLeo personally picked the last 3 #SupremeCourt justices, as well as countless federal #judges. Those picks are supposed to be made by the #President, but Trump handed over the authority to Mr. Leo marking the first time in American #history that Supreme Court justices were chosen by a private citizen and partisan political activist. Leo's #FederalistSociety represents an unprecedented #threat to the #nation, and a federal #investigation is truly fantastic news.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/d-c-attorney-general-is-probing-leonard-leos-network-00112331

#NarcoKlepto #DemocraticFaçade: The executive controls the #judiciary. And they are using #criminallaw to #persecute anybody who they consider a #criticalvoice. The Giammattei administration has been systematically attacking all #democraticinstitutions and persecuting anybody who had anything to do with fighting #corruption, including the highest-profile #judges, #prosecutors, #activists, and in the case of my father, #journalists.

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/13/jose_carlos_zamora_guatemala_censorship

#PublishingIsntACrime #KhashoggiMoment #FreeAssange #CriminalizingDissent #SUVDeathSquads #FossilFuelsViolateHumanRights #SchoolOfTheAmericas

Pressure Grows on Clarence Thomas to Resign as ProPublica Finds More Undisclosed Lavish Trips, Gifts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ecerTqjwxE&ab_channel=DemocracyNow%21

In the wake of ProPublica's bombshell report detailing even more lavish #gifts from #rightwing #billionaires to Supreme Court Justice #ClarenceThomas, five House Democrats are calling on the Justice Department to #investigate Thomas under the #Ethics in Government Act for accepting the series of gifts from wealthy #benefactors without following #disclosure laws. Federal judges are required to disclose gifts worth more than $1,000 — including travel. ProPublica's report documents Justice Thomas accepting 38 destination #vacations, 26 #privatejet flights, 12 VIP #passes to sporting events and eight #helicopter flights, all paid for by wealthy #patrons. We speak with co-author of the #ProPublica #investigation Brett Murphy about the process of revealing these lavish gifts and why even other #judges consider it "an unprecedented amount of #largesse for a justice to be accepting, let alone accepting and not disclosing."

Did Justice Thomas’s failure to report lavish gifts violate ethics laws?

Brennan Center experts explain Supreme Court disclosure rules.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/what-gifts-must-supreme-court-justices-disclose

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #Alito #RobertsCourt #Gorsuch #HarlanCrow #PaulSinger #Sotomayor #Ginsburg #ethics #courts #judges #law #ProPublica #reform

The Guardian is sharing ProPublica's report on Clarence Thomas, but the other major news orgs seem to be ignoring it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court
#Corruption #Judges #ClarenceThomas #GinniThomas #Bribery #SupremeCourt

“Perhaps even more significant, the pattern exposes consistent #violations of #JudicialNorms, experts, incl’g 7 current & fmr federal #judges appointed by both parties, told @ProPublica. 'In my career I don’t remember ever seeing this degree of largesse given to anybody. I think it’s unprecedented,'said Jeremy Fogel, a fmr #FederalJudge who served for yrs on the #judicial cmte that reviews judges’ #FinancialDisclosures.”
#SCOTUS #Law #Ethics #Corruption #Power #Privilege #DarkMoney

A reminder to #AileenCannon, the Oath of Office for Federal #Judges vows to "administer justice without respect to persons, & do EQUAL right to the POOR & to the RICH, & to faithfully & IMPARTIALLY discharge & perform all the duties incumbent upon a #UnitedStatesDistrictJudge under the #Constitution & #laws of the United States."

Only 3% of High Court judges since 2018 were SC; 1.5% ST: Parliamentary Committee flags 'diversity deficit' in judiciary

The Committee opined that the Supreme Court and High Court Collegiums should recommend an adequate number of women and candidates from marginalized sections for judgeship.

#IndianJudiciary #courts #SCST #dalits #SupremeCourt #HighCourts #collegiums #caste #CasteDiscrimination #GenderDiscrimination #representation #diversity #judges #india

https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/only-3-high-court-judges-sc-category-15-st-parliamentary-committee-flags-diversity-deficit-judiciary

#America has a weird idea of equal #justice in the #legal system I think we need different #judges and to stop electing former #prosecutors as #politicians

@markmetz Yup more problems than #trump lots of #judges who don’t want the #government to do a damn thing unless it’s a #rightwing thing

@DemocracyMattersALot So yeah we have more problems than #trump we have a whole federal bench full of wacko #judges and #lawenforcement agencies full of #maga #rightwing #racists and nope no one is working on fixing that sooo 🤷‍♂️

"Once we cease to be judges, whatever we say is just opinion and they are not binding," Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said on Tuesday when remarks of former CJI Ranjan Gogoi on basic structure doctrine made in Parliament were referred.
#Judges #ChiefJustice #RanjanGogoi #Remark
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/once-we-cease-to-be-judges-chief-justice-on-ranjan-gogois-remark-4280831

“As a three-decade former state prosecutor in New York, I have never seen a defendant treated as leniently as defendant Trump. He has a rap sheet with 3 open felony indictments, 78-charges, in 3 separate jurisdictions.

In THREE separate jurisdictions. He has repeatedly #threatened #prosecutors, #judges, and potential #witnesses and has his own 757 jumbo jet at the ready to fly anywhere in the world and can abscond at any time. And the nature of his charges are among the most serious there are — he is accused of stealing our nation’s most sensitive secrets, trying to destroy evidence of his crimes, committing fraud in the oval office, and causing a violent insurrection in order to attempt to steal an election he lost, and our democracy. Imagine if he were Black or Muslim. There is no doubt he would be incarcerated pending trial.”

Criminal defendant conditions of release, pretrial.

#coup #plotter #conspiracy #crimes and #threats

#Beating of #Hedi R.: #Investigators reconstruct #violent #attack by Marseille #police

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/08/03/beating-of-hedi-r-investigators-reconstruct-violent-attack-by-marseille-police_6078398_7.html

> The young man suffered severe #head #injuries during an #altercation in the southern #French city amidst the #riots following the police killing of #Nahel M. #Witness #testimony and #camera #footage are helping #judges in their #investigation.

#france #ViolencesPolicières