Billionaire George Soros Trying To Stack the Courts, Critics Say

Fox News.com ^ | June 27, 2011 | Maxim Lott

[Kaslin]

Billionaire George Soros spends tens of millions each year supporting a range of liberal social and political causes, from drug legalization to immigration reform to gay marriage to abolishing the death penalty.

But a less well-known Soros priority -- replacing elections for judges with selection-by-committee -- now has critics accusing him of trying to stack the courts.

Most non-federal judges around the country are selected by voters in elections. But some states use a process called “merit selection” in which a committee – often made up of lawyers – appoints judges to the bench instead.

Soros has spent several million dollars in the past decade in an attempt to get more states to scrap elections and adopt the merit method. Supporters say it would allow judges to focus on interpreting the law rather than on raising campaign funds and winning elections.

“Merit selection would end the money race and get judges out of the fundraising business,” Lynn Marks, executive director of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts -- a group that has received money from Soros’ Open Society Institute -- told FoxNews.com.

But critics say that if judges are picked by committee -- often, a committee of lawyers -- that will give left-wing judges the upper hand.

“The left can’t get their agenda through the legislatures anymore … so they think they can get their agenda through by taking over the courts,” attorney Colleen Pero, author of a new report titled "Hijacking Justice," told FoxNews.com.

[DTA]

>>>>>>Has Soros actually broken any laws?<<<<<<

Probably misrepresented his Nazi past in Budapest on his immigration papers. He was a member of Nylas and aided in confiscation of Jewish property. He fled Hungary because of his Nazi past.

Lie to INS should count as breaking the law.

His Quantum fund has a track record of 30$ profit year after year, every year. Only money laundering, selling drugs, weapons and insifer trading can provide such score card.

[Liz]

Soros' Quantum fund has a track record of 30% profit, year after year, every year. Only money laundering, selling drugs, weapons, and insider trading can provide such a score card.

And don't forget, Soros has complete access to trillions of US tax dollars, thanks to Obama. Soros has thousands of "non-profit groups" scattered across the globe---where tax dollars can easily find refuge with no one the wiser.

Soros probably taught Madoff the way to go-----the court-appointed trustee tracing Madoff's assets found a super-secret labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and financial entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth......with assets and businesses in multiple places overseas that hid thievery, money laundering and tax evasion.

Another cute truck (/snix)---- an arch criminal like Soros who is tipped off where the Fed will go with interest rates---can make billions.

Of course, Ohaha gets a cut of everything.