Wait, what? First litigants and now lawyers? Since when is having constructive conversation about positive improvements in America met with self-gagging for the fear of reprisal? We have laws about this – put there by lawyers and judges and litigants – for the benefit of us all. How is it that it doesn’t seem to apply to this crucial segment of the population?
As with the piece I did a couple of months ago on our financial institutions, fear and retaliation exist in the very halls created to keep this from happening. And with no one talking about this our justice system is trudging along. The very people best equipped to make positive change can’t talk about it in an open and healthy way. Those on the inside not only know the problem areas (and people), but are best equipped to put up guardrails. Paging Kafka.
In 2021, a Wall Street Journal article found that, “More than 130 federal judges have violated U.S. law and judicial ethics by overseeing court cases involving companies in which they or their family owned stock. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that judges have improperly failed to disqualify themselves from 685 court cases around the nation since 2010.”
