Peloni: The road back from anarchy requires an absolute commitment by the judiciary to act as the good arbiters of justice, and for this to be enforced, judges must be held accountable for violating standards of professional conduct and the law. Bravo to Daniel Greenfield, Former Rep. Louis Gohmert, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center for doing the heavy lifting in restoring the groundwork of judicial accountability in America. If only such standards of accountability for the judiciary were normative in Israel – just one of the many benefits of having an actual constitution complete with checks and balances. The weaponization of judicial decisions based on political preferences and arbitrary standards is not justice, it is tyranny, and democratic governance can not survive the practiced exploitation of tyrannical rule. This simple premise was the very premise upon which the judiciary was instituted in the Western world. Fiat justitia ruat caelum, ie let justice be done though the heavens fall.
Only judicial accountability can end the judicial coup.
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Capitol Hill was quiet when we got there. Neither house was in session yet, the hallways of office buildings that two days later would be filled with lobbyists and special interest groups were deserted, and we were on the ground seeking out the few members who were back early.
On the way in, I passed two dozen folders with the logo of the David Horowitz Freedom Center through the metal detector. They were explosive but not in a way the machine would pick up.
And we had two and half days to get as many of them as possible into the hands of Congress.
Ever since President Trump had taken office, he had been stalemated by a judicial coup. A cabal of radical judges had connived to block the president in dozens of areas. Every week, another lawsuit, another order, and more time wasted and momentum lost to the Left.
That’s why the David Horowitz Freedom Center had developed the Judicial Accountability Project to break the stalemate and restore the framework of a constitutional government.
The idea began during a conversation with former Rep. Louie Gohmert, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, at the Freedom Center’s event in Vegas last year. Like many of the important exchanges at Center events, this one happened off to the sidelines. And like more than a few of those it lit a spark that led to bigger things happening far beyond that hotel.
“What does the constitution say about judges?” former Rep. Gohmert, who had once served as a state chief judge, asked me. “The judges ‘shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour.’”
A few months later we and members of the Freedom Center staff, including John Perazzo of Discover the Networks, had begun working on the Judicial Accountability Project. We were building profiles of judges and collecting information about judicial abuses, and even more importantly we were building a roadmap of constitutional options for accountability.
Our list included a judge who had lied about working for Jeffrey Epstein and signed off on the Mar-a-Lago raid, a Pakistani judge who had apologized to two attempted Trump assassins, along with more famous figures like Judge Boasberg, who had signed off on the covert surveillance of members of Congress, as well as judges guilty of conflicts of interest, abuse of AI to fake precedents, partisan misconduct from the bench and other violations of judicial codes.
One of the arguments I made to the members of Congress I spoke with was, “If you can’t call in Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer, who can you call in?”
The judicial coup is only possible because both the legislative and judicial branches of government had abandoned their oversight allowing any one of 677 permanent district court judges to block what was supposed to be the executive branch of government.
And the popular perception is that once a judge clears the senate, he or she cannot be removed short of a full trial and impeachment, and only for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’. When a judge is out of control, nothing can be done except an appeal to the Supreme Court. And the Court, whose conservative majority is shaky even at the best of times, is overwhelmed.
But the roadmap laid out in the folders we were handing out to members of Congress showed that wasn’t true. Oversight authority over the judiciary lies with Congress. Members of Congress had failed to exercise that legislative muscle and like any muscle that isn’t used, it atrophies.
In 1980, Congress had made a deal with the judicial branch. The judiciary would implement a solid disciplinary system that would hold judges accountable and the legislature would refrain from moving forward with sturdier disciplinary mechanisms like the 1979 Judicial Tenure Act, which passed the Senate, but not the House, which had proposed creating a 12-member judicial commission that could remove judges if they failed to pass “the good behavior standard.”
In our folders we had collected evidence of judicial violations, ranging from conflicts of interests, abuses of power, rank partisanship from the bench and using AI to forge precedents with no action taken. The judiciary had broken its bargain with Congress by failing to discipline itself.
And every week brings new judicial violations that continue to pile up almost faster than we can keep up with them. (In the latest revelation, a federal judge who helped pave the way for the election theft in Georgia in 2020 was ‘privately reprimanded’ for having sex in her chambers.)
That was the argument that we made across 24 hours on Capitol Hill to key lawmakers in the Judiciary and Oversight committees as we met in person with, presented to or visited the offices of 8 senators and nearly 30 House members. We were among the first to arrive on Capitol Hill and among the last to leave. We were there before Congress was in session and we were a constant presence once it was underway. We were in and out of buildings and offices and even though I’m used to running and walking 5 miles a day, my feet ached at the end of every day.
Former Rep. Louie Gohmert knew the territory and was tireless and indefatigable in navigating the human and architectural labyrinths of Congress. It was his vision that had gotten us this far. And what he offered was his incredible political, legal and historical knowledge, and common sense. The idea that any branch of government could be unchecked by any other branch and not subject to any accountability in its conduct is an imperial notion alien to the Constitution.
We were not lobbyists. We had not come to make the case for any particular piece of legislation, for any industry or special interests, what we were asking for was for Congress to implement its Constitutional role. Now we’re sharing the same report with you that we shared with members of Congress and asking you to make that same case for judicial accountability. Only judicial accountability can end the judicial coup and restore the constitutional balance of powers.
Members of Congress were ready to hear our message, but they need to know that you care.
Please look and consider signing our petition HERE to hold activist judges accountable and share the report with the member of Congress in your district
Judicial Accountability Combined by sultanknish
I just donated. Taking the judiciary is how they take over e ery country. They did it in Israel.