The Founding Fathers simply did not put enough checks and balances on the judicial branch of this country. And I don’t believe it was their fault, either. The judicial branch of this country was supposed to be a very weak branch, but it has usurped more power than anybody would have envisioned in their wildest dreams that it would usurp, so almost no checks and balances were at the ready.
I’m going to start out this segment about these out-of-control judges with the example of a judge who lost control of himself and sent his entire courtroom to jail for almost no reason. 46 people were sent to the city jail, and 14 people who couldn’t pay bail were shipped off to the county jail, and not released until the late afternoon.
And even after this incident had concluded, it took two whole years to finally get that judge off the bench.
There’s just no accountability, there’s absolutely no accountability for what they do in their courtrooms. He needed more than just to be removed from the bench. He needed to go to jail himself. Why? Because he unduly sent those people to jail. That’s why. And the amount of time that he needs to spend in there is the total amount of man-hours that everybody that he sent there spent in there.
Now for the 32 people that had the money to post bail who were only taken to the city jail, it sounds like maybe it was a 2 hour ordeal for each one of them. For those 14 that did not have the money to post bail and who were bussed first to the city jail, and then bussed to the country jail where they were not released until the late afternoon, that sounds like a 6 hour ordeal for each one of them. So if you add all that up, that’s 32*2 + 14*6 = 148 man-hours. Therefore this judge needs to spend 6 days and 4 hours in jail for what he did.
Judicial accountability. Not judicial immunity.
