The vicious corruption which characterizes this regime is further unveiled with Salon's reportage on judge Payne. Notice that the mainstream meedia has very little a few days ago when Noel L. Hillman, who was prosecuting in the Abramoff case, was taken off the case by Bush with an appointment to federal judgeship.

As usual, there's one standard for the ridiculously wreckless Republicans and another completely different one for the rest of us. (Republican voters included).

This administration is either so corrupt or so inept (or both) that it's simply surreal.

Do you mean the same weak, limp-dick Senate that just gave Alito the big ole onto the Supreme Court? This Payne must be absolutely quaking.

Could it be any more obvious? For a President who has publically declared his committment to unwind the political and social clock all the way back to the days of Plessy v. Fergusson is it strange that they're also as corrupt as the Robber Barons? No, one goes with the other.

Bush's judicial appointees have the same ethical syhillis as the rest of the Republican party.

Watch for the price list on the Supreme Court with the whore Scalia, the bitch Alito, and Madame Roberts in charge.

As a retired attorney, I think the public would be shocked if they really knew how many unethical judges there are. In my nine years of practice, I met only two honest judges. All the rest were beholden to the people who got them on the bench and to the attorneys practicing before them who gave money for their re-elections.

"Nobody in the legal community in Tulsa or Northern Oklahoma is probably going to care," said lawyer David Blades. "Tulsa's a small town, by national standards. We all know each other, we all know the judges and go to the same bar meetings, and it's just not going to make a difference."

Is it just me or does this little gem of a quote just smack of Old Boy's Club. Well, it's not just Tulsa that's a

small town Blades, the entire Republican administration is small town, and Dubya makes a fine Boss Hog.

K. Elle Clarke

To hwwesq,

You are the second lawyer that I have heard this from. The other is a close friend, and respected environmental atty in a large firm. He says he is one of the most cynical people he knows, due to the crap he has experienced in the legal system. According to him, party affiliation makes no difference.

Poco

P.S.

I am not a republican, I am not a democrat. I am a conservative. Not a lying, cheating, thieving "conservative", a real conservative.

Given the massive ethical cloud that the Bush Administration and the Republican leadership is under, is anyone surprised that even the judiciary is affected by this?

All Bush wants is cronyies in the offices of power. This caused the destruction and subsequent non-cleaning of New Orleans, the war in Iraq, the shredding of the budget, and the attack on the Constitution. Cronyism and the lust for power and money.

The saddest part is that Bush, and his sheeplike followers consider themselves good Americans.

If Judge Payne is disciplined it would be a rare almost non-existent event. Federal Judges are almost never disciplined under any method.

The following allegations are fully supported at: 

mmason.freeshell.org/methods.htm  

mmason.freeshell.org/372c/index.html

These links describe and document conduct so egregious and dishonest it is hard to imagine or overstate. Take five minutes and read them, then judge for yourself. This type of dishonesty and Judicial abuse simply can not be tolerated in a democracy.

Federal Judges will take extreme measures to keep from disciplining other Federal Judges. They will lie and cheat and make up facts, or ignore facts. The current methods of federal judicial discipline are: 

• Impeachment 

• Judicial Misconduct and Disability Act 

• Lawsuits Against Judges 

• Appellate Review 

These methods are ineffective as Judges can and do undermine them with apparent ease and no accountability. One would think that if a judge, U.S. District Judge Donald L. Graham, is guilty of the following then some type of discipline would be in order. 

• Lying and intentionally misrepresenting law. 

• Refusing to rule on a motion for a preliminary injunction that had been pending for more than 17 months. 

• Allowing scores of motions and filings to languish without being decided. 

• Usurping legal authority.  Allowing a Magistrate to issue an injunction prohibiting direct communication with the Highlands County Government. Additionally, prohibiting Marcellus Mason from making public records request under Florida Law directly to Highlands County.

  Violating clearly established law and the authority of the U.S. Supreme Court by issuing pre-filing injunctions. 

• Abuse of the criminal contempt procedure. Judge Graham took patently illegal order and made it the basis of a criminal contempt complaint and conviction.

  Lying and intentionally misrepresenting material facts. 

• Ignoring the U.S. Supreme Court denying access to the courts by refusing to state any reason for denying IFP applications.