Thursday, August 8, 2013

OBAMA AND SOTOMEYER LIED TO GET HER ON SCOTUS

Submitted by: Suzanne
 
How Journalists and their Managing Editors Can Pick Up Where
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico
Left Off Their Stories Suspecting President Obama’s First Justiceship Nominee, Then-Judge Sotomayor, of Concealment of Assets; and
Provoke Such Outrage in the Public, Already so Distrustful of Government as a Result of Current Scandals and the Revelations of Edward Snowden, as to Cause It to Demand
Democracy-Reformative Mechanisms for Public Accountability, Such as Citizen Boards for Monitoring the Transparent Operation of Government and Disciplining its Officers,
that Can Give Rise to
A New We the People-government Paradigm: the People’s Sunrise

by

Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, England
M.B.A., University of Michigan Business School
D.E.A., La Sorbonne, Paris
Judicial Discipline Reform


The revelations by Mr. Edward Snowden([1] >ol:17) of government programs that run surveillance on tens of millions of Americans’ telephone records and Internet communications have only deepened public distrust(ol:11) of government already provoked by the IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious scandals and the government’s complicit decision not to hold anybody accountable for the mortgage debacle and the banks’ use of fake documents to foreclose on mortgages.


This is the right time to show the public how unaccountability and consequent riskless wrongdoing begin at the top of government and percolate throughout the rest of it. An outraged public may force substantial reform of the government that We the People are sovereign to give ourselves.


A. Story leads in the top, credible news outlets

1. Then-Judge, Now-Justice, Sotomayor’s financial wrongdoing

Indeed, in 2009, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico([1] >jur:65fn107a) suspected Then-Judge, Now-U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sotomayor of concealing assets.


2. The President’s political wrongdoing

President Obama must have learned about her concealment from her financial affairs statements publicly filed with the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was preparing her confirmation hearings, and the report of the FBI, which had vetted her. But he disregarded the requirement that the judges have imposed on themselves, namely, to “avoid even the appearance of impropriety”, because he wanted to cater to voters calling for another woman and the first Hispanic for the Supreme Court and from whom he expected in return support for his Obamacare bill.(77§5)

The President lied to the American people by vouching for J. Sotomayor’s honesty despite his knowledge or probable cause to believe that she was concealing assets, whether for tax evasion or money laundering. Her commission(65fn107c) of that crime disqualified her from remaining a judge, let alone becoming a justice, for it showed that, far from keeping her oath to apply the law also to herself, she kept breaking it through the continuous crime of concealment.

An economically struggling public will resent a President that in self-interest saddled it with a dishonest justice as greedy as her peers(105fn213): Federal judges earn a salary of around $200K, four times the average American household income, but conceal assets, breaking the law and showing that they cannot be trusted to respect the law enough to administer Equal Justice Under Law.


3. J. Sotomayor’s perjurious withholding of incriminating documents

J. Sotomayor was also dishonest by swearing that she had produced all documents requested by the Senate Committee although she had withheld a case that incriminated her in covering up a bankruptcy fraud scheme run by federal judges and driven by the two most corruptive forces: money and power.

DeLano(jur:xxxviii), 06-4780-bk-CA2(69fn131), was well known to her since she had presided over it and it had been appealed to the Supreme Court on a writ of certiorari only a few months earlier. What is more, a judicial misconduct complaint arising from it had been appealed to the 2nd Circuit’s Judicial Council, of which she was a member(65§§1-3).


B. A study of judges’ wrongdoing and a business opportunity for the media

In addition, my study Exposing Judges' Unaccountability and Consequent Riskless Wrongdoing(jur:i) allows journalists to expose the dishonesty of federal judges generally, whether by their commission or condonation of wrongdoing. It provides evidence of their motive, means, and opportunity to do wrong and the reason for the media to hold them unaccountable.(jur:21§A)

The study subtitle tells the journalist and media outlet that break the story what they will be accomplishing thereby: Pioneering the news and publishing field of judicial unaccountability reporting. Its discussion sets the basis for a multidisciplinary academic and business venture(119§§1-4) aimed to lead to the creation of an institute of judicial unaccountability reporting and reform advocacy(130§§5-8).


C. The proposed investigation of the Obama-Sotomayor

The proposed investigation(97§D) of the Obama-Sotomayor story begins with the search for her concealed assets. It can be conducted cost-effectively by working with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, who have gained especial Follow the money! expertise(ol:1,2).

After the breaking of the story, the public will be so outraged as to demand that the President release the FBI vetting report on her. Its interest in follow-up news will generate the market incentive for a Watergate-like generalized media investigation guided by a proven(jur:4¶¶10-14) query:

What did the President
and the justices and judges know about
J. Sotomayor’s concealment of assets and cover up, and
when did they know it?

The investigation will expose how the Executive Branch and Congress(171¶371) have in self-interest exempted the Judiciary from their checks and balances, resulting in judges’ unaccountability, disregard of the law, and harm to the people, left at the mercy of judges wielding unaccountable and thus absolute, power over their rights, property, liberty, and lives.(28fn32)


D. A story worth investigating because it is unique

It can reasonably be stated that this story is unique: It allows journalists to expose the dishonesty of a sitting president and a sitting justice of the Supreme Court and his first nominee to it; of Congress, which confirmed her and her peers and enables their unaccountability(78§6); and of the Judiciary, allowed to be the most abusive(21§1), secretive(27§e), and unresponsive(28§3) of the branches despite the fundamental principle that “justice must not only be done, it must manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done”(44fn71).

Not even the Watergate Scandal had such scope, yet it led to the resignation of President Nixon on August 9, 1974, on suspicion of plotting political espionage and covering it up through abuse of power.


E. The story-breaking journalists’ gain and impact

To begin with, the journalist and the managing editor who break the Obama-Sotomayor story will have their reputation enhanced nationally and qualify for many other moral and material rewards(ol:6§3). Their example will assure a judge-afraid media of the safety of joining them, for not even federal judges can retaliate against all their exposers simultaneously.

A public mobilized(163§9) by outrage will force politicians, lest they be voted out or not into office, to investigate the story.

The politicians’ subpoena, search and seizure, contempt, and penal powers will facilitate their tracking income and loans down to the whereabouts of concealed assets. Their findings will further expose the nature, gravity, and pervasiveness of public servants’ unaccountability and wrongdoing(cf. jur:5§3).

They will so exacerbate the outrage of the public as to cause it to compel historic, democracy-innovating reform of the mechanisms for holding public servants accountable, e.g., a new statutory or constitutional framework for a Judiciary that operates transparently and monitored by independent citizen boards of judicial accountability and discipline.

Thus, the journalist and managing editor who break the story can have a more substantial impact than The Guardian Columnist Glenn Greenwald(ol:21), who published the Snowden leaks:

They can launch a process leading to a new We the People-government paradigm where the people play a direct role in ensuring that public servants are, not above the law, but only their hired administrators and that in fact government is of, for, and by the people.

It can spread from the federal to the state level and on to the rest of the world, which is wont to adopt our culture and political developments: It can lead to the People’s Sunrise.

Dare trigger history!(dcc:11)

http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL/DrRCordero-Honest_Jud_Advocates.pdf

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