August 4, 2022

What exactly did the COVID relief money fund, anyway?

The wasteful spending by our government is no big secret, as it has unfortunately been going on forever, but I just came across some information that brought out government wasteful spending practices to rock bottom. During COVID, the government c...

November 28, 2021

How Judicial Misbehavior Skates in America

We have a serious problem within the federal Judiciary in how it protects itself from malfeasance issues when people file judicial misconduct complaints against judges. The Judicial Conduct and Disability Act allows "[a]ny person alleging tha...

August 6, 2021

An inspector general for the Judiciary is needed

On December 6, 2017, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who at the time was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced a bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide an Inspector General for the Judicial Branch and for other purpo...

April 2, 2021

Policing American judges

We have a serious problem in our country with judicial malfeasance issues, and it is high time that we finally address it.  The data show that thousands of judges have been charged with breaking laws or violating oaths without any...

October 19, 2017

Reforming the 7th Circuit

Richard Posner recently retired from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago publicly, stating that he was retiring earlier than he had originally planned because of the mistreatment that the judges on the 7th Circuit were giving the pro se litig...

October 10, 2017

Judge Posner's truth

Richard A. Posner, a 35-year member of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, has retired from the bench earlier than he had planned because of clashes with his fellow judges over the way the 7th Circuit treats litigants who represent themselve...