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Sue Aitken called the police because she was worried about her son, Brian. She now lives with the guilt of knowing that her phone call is the reason Brian spent his 27th birthday in a New Jersey prison last month. If the state gets its way, he will be there for the next seven years. Aitken was sentenced in August after he was convicted of felony possession of a handgun. Before his arrest, Aitken, an entrepreneur and owner of a media consulting business, had no criminal record, and it appears he made a good-faith effort to comply with New Jersey's...

~ EXCERPT ~ FAIRBANKS -- A judge ruled today that the Fairbanks North Star Borough must release personnel records of Senate candidate Joe Miller. In an unusual Saturday hearing, retired Superior Court Judge Winston Burbank ruled that the public's right to know about candidates outweighed Miller's right to privacy. Burbank ordered no release until at least Tuesday, however, to allow Miller to appeal the decision to the Alaska Supreme Court. Some of the documents will be redacted, he said. The case was brought by a group of Alaska news media organizations, who have been trying since summer to see borough...

U.S. Rep. William Delahunt blew nearly $560,000 in campaign cash last year - much of it on lavish meals and a family-friendly payroll that includes his ex-wife, son-in-law and daughter - stoking speculation the Quincy Democrat is emptying his war chest and won’t seek re-election. -snip- Delahunt told the Herald last week that he was still weighing whether to seek re-election, but Democratic Party sources have privately indicated his departure is anticipated - and expected to draw a host of candidates-in-waiting out of the woodwork.

The tale of Judge Kathe Tuttman and murderous dirtbag Daniel Tavares Jr. is not Mitt Romney’s “Willie Horton” moment. It is his “Hillary Clinton” moment. Gov. Romney made Kathe Tuttman a judge for the same reason Hillary wants you to make her president: Because she’s a girl. Calm down, feminists. I refer to Tuttman as “girl” out of respect for her fellow Democrat, Hillary, whose campaign war cry has been “If you want a winner who knows how to take [the GOP] on, I’m your girl!” Mitt Romney’s political opponents are, as expected, trying to connect the dots between his...

From: LifeSiteNews US Court Rules it's OK to Censor the Terms 'Natural Family,' 'Marriage' and 'Family Values' Attorney representing harassed Christian employess warns, "If we choose to be silent, silenced we shall be" TEMECULA, California, March 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Earlier this week, San Francisco's United States notorious Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the matter of Good News Employees Association v. Hicks that municipal employers can completely censor the terms "natural family," "marriage" and "family values" as hate speech. The court concluded that municipalities have a right to literally dictate what form an employee's speech may take, even...

August 27, 2006 -- If there were any doubt that a federal judge's decision earlier this month declaring the Bush administration's warrantless-surveillance program unconstitutional was blatantly political, consider this: Judicial Watch reports that the judge, Anna Diggs Taylor, is an officer and trustee of a group that funds the American Civil Liberties Union's Michigan branch - which was a plaintiff in the case. Indeed, the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan's board of trustees, which includes Judge Taylor, makes all funding decisions for the group - and has given the local ACLU at least $125,000 since 1999. Legal-ethics experts disagree on...

Dr. Elsebeth Baumgartner and Bryan DuBois run a blog called Erie Voices that focuses on local issues in northern Ohio, especially those that are underreported by local newspapers. Many of their posts deal with judicial and governmental corruption in northern Ohio. The bloggers were arrested in July on charges of intimidation, retaliation, and possession of criminal tools (a computer). Their trial began yesterday. The charges originated from a complaint made by retired visiting Judge Richard Markus, who alleges that Baumgartner and DuBois intimidated and threatened him in 2004 prior to a civil trial in which Baumgartner was the defendant, as...

A federal District Court Judge has ruled that the privacy rights of illegal aliens convicted of heinous crimes in this country are more important than the public’s right to know if the government is properly enforcing a key immigration law. Amazing as the ruling itself may be, what is even more stunning is the fact that U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Richard J. Leon was affirming the Bush administration’s position in the case. President Bush nominated Leon in 2001 and the Senate confirmed him in February 2002. Leon’s Sept. 27 ruling was in response to an...

I ordered a transcript of a court hearing from the court reporter. Based on conversations with the court reporter, it is obvious that he is not going to give the actual verbatim transcript of what was actually said in court. He claims he transcribed the nearing from a digital recording. He is also refusing to provide me with a cipy of the digital recording, obviously because there will be some substantive differences betwenn the digital recording and his transcript. He claims that I am not entitled to a copy of the digital recording on which the transcript is based. He...

The Center for Reclaiming America, an organization backed by the Rev. D. James Kennedy, reported that a serious conflict of interest may exist for the Florida state judge who is ruling on the Terri Schiavo case. The report from the center follows: As if the circumstances surrounding Terri Schiavo could not get any more suspicious, the Center for Reclaiming America has uncovered evidence that Pinellas-Pasco County Circuit Judge George W. Greer accepted a campaign contribution from the law firm of Michael Schiavo’s attorney only one day after "Terri’s Law" was declared unconstitutional by a Pinellas county court. This appears to...

The judge who tried the Terri Schiavo case and most recently rejected Gov. Jeb Bush's request to intervene, received a campaign contribution from the lawyer pressing for the brain-injured woman's death, raising questions of a conflict of interest. According to Florida's Department of State, Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George W. Greer received a contribution of $250 for his 2004 re-election campaign from Felos & Felos, the law firm of George Felos. Felos, known as a "right-to-die" advocate, represents Terri Schiavo's estranged husband, Michael Schiavo, who won a court order from Greer to have the woman's life-sustaining feeding tube removed...

The founder of an anti-abortion group is rallying support for efforts to prevent removal of a feeding tube that would end a brain-damaged Florida woman’s life by urging public pressure on a Southern Baptist judge who has handled most of the legal matters in her case. Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry described “several points of attack” to mobilize public opinion to keep Terri Schiavo alive, now that her parents have lost their main legal challenges to prevent her husband, Michael Schiavo, from removing the tube that has kept his wife alive artificially since 1990. Terry said one “place where Terri’s...

Florida Circuit Judge Jim Henson should be removed from office for advising a client, while still in private practice, to flee to Colombia to avoid charges, the Judicial Qualifications Commission said Thursday.

Former District Attorney Fights Corrupt Courts and Corrupt Judges in Portland Oregon [He Lost] Battle with Multnomah CountyHow could a man who came from an all American role model family, who was loved by those who knew him, and considered to be a civic leader, was Director of the Multnomah County Consumer Fraud Division, get committed to a mental institution? After multiple attempts to make a public record, in open court in Multnomah County, regarding the theft of the Kettleberg Estate, Roger was ordered to have a "psych eval" by Dr. Falder Colby. When Multnomah County Judge Dorothy Baker asked...

Article 8 Alliance – Massachusetts – ** June 16 SPECIAL Email Update ** Statewide movement to remove the SJC 4 and take back our government. Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts CAN be stopped. (Feel free to pass this along to others) === 1. Today we finally GOT the votes to win in the Rules Committee! === Everyone said it couldn't be done. But we did it. The bill of address must get out of the Rules Committee, to get anywhere. The whole train is being held up by these few people. There are 15 members of the House rules committee. This...

Subject: Mass. Marriage Update - June 11 Article 8 Alliance – Massachusetts – ** June 11 Email Update ** Statewide movement to remove the SJC 4 and take back our government. Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts CAN be stopped. (Feel free to pass this along to others) In this email update: === A small victory, but a victory nevertheless. === One more rep on the Rules Committee has come around! Rep. Theodore Speliotis of Danvers told one of his callers that he'll vote to allow the bill of address out of committee. We immediately called his office to confirm that, and...

<p>State commission accuses Gooding of improper conduct during 2002 campaign.</p> <p>A Jacksonville judge has been charged with improper conduct by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission, which has accused him of four violations in connection with his hard-fought 2002 election campaign.</p>

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush and the parents of a severely brain-damaged woman won appellate court rulings in their favor Friday on two legal issues in their quest to keep the woman alive against her husband's wishes. Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that Pinellas Circuit Court Judge W. Douglas Baird did not follow judicial rules when he denied Terri Schiavo's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, the ability to intervene in the constitutional challenge to a law aimed at keeping the 40-year-old woman alive. The appeals court also ruled that Bush's attorneys will be allowed to question...

IF YOU WANT JUDICIAL REFORM THIS WEEK IS CRUCIAL--PLEASE CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD From: Joe Norman II Subject: STOP BAD JUSTICE PROJECT NEWS AND THIS IS THE WEEK TO BE HEARD Congress returns from the Christmas recess next week and will hold meetings to establish the calendar for the next session. The most important group meeting for JUDICIAL REFORM in American history will occur soon after congress returns. This group called the JUDICIAL ABUSE TASK FORCE was organized by Congressmen Lamar Smith of Texas and Steve Chabot of Ohio and was announced on July 23, 2003. It is...

Buying Justice Robert Lenzner and Matthew Miller, 07.21.03 For years the trial lawyers had state courts wrapped around their fingers. Now big business is striking back. It is waging a secret election-campaign war on judges who favor plaintiffs in tort cases. Justice C.P. (Chuck) McRae is adored by trial lawyers--and reviled by business. A colorful, cocky figure who drives a motorcycle to the courthouse and dresses in cowboy boots, blue jeans and lots of leather, he was once president of the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association. Nearly all of his $700,000 campaign fund in 2000 came in the form of $5,000...