Judge Reform?
Who Judges The Judge? Perhaps to reframe the question, ‘Who Should Elect The Judge?’
Is this “reform” movement headed in the same direction as the now stripped (or soon-to-be stripped) Sarbanes-Oxley bill that was to add oversight to corporate bad boys and girls?
It is a good idea for public hearings and revealing the federal judges’ corporate backgrounds…but why should they be appointed for life? Well, if the Constitution says so, then that’s the way it has to be forever.
Federal judges, like Congressmen, federal agency heads and even US presidents, sometimes take actions believed by other government officials, the public and the press to be outrageous, unethical or even criminal.
The difference for alleged victims and others complaining about federal jurists’ behavior, as opposed to other officials’ behavior, is striking. Congressmen, agency heads and presidents are not appointed to their jobs for life. Federal judges are. And justices of the US Supreme Court are not even bound by the ethics code that other federal judges are. Usually, any federal jurist can be removed only by the incredibly complex and difficult Congressional impeachment process.
- Posted by Kat Walter for USTV Media
