How
Journalists and their Managing Editors Can Pick Up Where
The New York Times, The
Washington Post, and Politico
Left
Off Their Stories Suspecting President Obama’s First Justiceship Nominee,
Then-Judge Sotomayor, of Concealment of Assets; and
Provoke
Such Outrage in the Public, Already so Distrustful of Government as a Result of
Current Scandals and the Revelations of Edward Snowden, as to Cause It to
Demand
Democracy-Reformative
Mechanisms for Public Accountability, Such as Citizen Boards for Monitoring the
Transparent Operation of Government and Disciplining its Officers,
that
Can Give Rise to
A
New We
the People-government Paradigm: the People’s Sunrise
by
Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.
Ph.D., University
of Cambridge, England
M.B.A.,
University of Michigan Business School
D.E.A., La
Sorbonne, Paris
Judicial
Discipline Reform
The revelations by Mr. Edward Snowden([1] >ol:17) of government programs that run surveillance on
tens of millions of Americans’ telephone records and Internet communications
have only deepened public distrust(ol:11) of government already
provoked by the IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious scandals and the government’s
complicit decision not to hold anybody accountable for the mortgage debacle and
the banks’ use of fake documents to foreclose on mortgages.
This is the right time to show the public how
unaccountability and consequent riskless wrongdoing begin at the top of
government and percolate throughout the rest of it. An outraged public may force
substantial reform of the government that We
the People are sovereign to give ourselves.
A. Story leads in the top, credible
news outlets
1. Then-Judge, Now-Justice,
Sotomayor’s financial wrongdoing
Indeed, in 2009, The
New York Times, The Washington Post,
and Politico([1] >jur:65fn107a)
suspected Then-Judge, Now-U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sotomayor of concealing
assets.
2. The President’s
political wrongdoing
President Obama must have learned about her concealment from
her financial affairs statements publicly filed with the Senate Judiciary
Committee, which was preparing her confirmation hearings, and the report of the
FBI, which had vetted her. But he disregarded the requirement that the judges have imposed on themselves,
namely, to “avoid
even the appearance of impropriety”, because he wanted to cater to voters
calling for another woman and the first Hispanic for the Supreme Court and from
whom he expected in return support for his Obamacare bill.(77§5)
The President lied to the American people by vouching for J.
Sotomayor’s honesty despite his knowledge or probable cause to believe that she
was concealing assets, whether for tax evasion or money laundering. Her
commission(65fn107c) of that crime disqualified
her from remaining a judge, let alone becoming a justice, for it showed that,
far from keeping her oath to apply the law also to herself, she kept breaking
it through the continuous crime of concealment.
An economically struggling public will resent a President
that in self-interest saddled it with a dishonest
justice as greedy as her peers(105fn213):
Federal judges earn a salary of around $200K,
four times the average American household
income, but conceal assets, breaking the law and showing that they
cannot be trusted to respect the law enough to administer Equal Justice Under
Law.
3. J. Sotomayor’s
perjurious withholding of incriminating documents
J. Sotomayor was also dishonest by swearing that she had
produced all documents requested by the Senate Committee although she had
withheld a case that incriminated her in covering up a bankruptcy fraud scheme run by federal judges and driven by the two
most corruptive forces: money and power.
DeLano(jur:xxxviii), 06-4780-bk-CA2(69fn131),
was well known to her since she had presided over it and it had been appealed
to the Supreme Court on a writ of certiorari only a few months earlier. What is
more, a judicial misconduct complaint arising from it had been appealed to the 2nd
Circuit’s Judicial Council, of which she was a member(65§§1-3).
B. A study
of judges’ wrongdoing and a business opportunity for the media
In addition, my study Exposing Judges' Unaccountability
and Consequent Riskless Wrongdoing(jur:i)
allows journalists to expose the dishonesty of federal judges generally,
whether by their commission or condonation of wrongdoing. It provides evidence
of their motive, means, and opportunity to do wrong and the reason for the
media to hold them unaccountable.(jur:21§A)
The study subtitle tells
the journalist and media outlet that break the story what they will be accomplishing
thereby: Pioneering
the news and publishing field of judicial unaccountability reporting. Its discussion sets
the basis for a multidisciplinary academic and business venture(119§§1-4) aimed to lead to the creation of an institute of judicial unaccountability
reporting and reform advocacy(130§§5-8).
C. The proposed investigation of
the Obama-Sotomayor
The proposed investigation(97§D) of
the Obama-Sotomayor story begins with the search for her concealed assets.
It can be conducted cost-effectively by working with the International
Consortium of Investigative Journalists, who have gained especial Follow the money! expertise(ol:1,2).
After the breaking of the
story, the public will be so
outraged as to
demand that the President
release the FBI
vetting report on her. Its interest in follow-up
news will generate
the market incentive for a Watergate-like generalized media investigation guided
by a proven(jur:4¶¶10-14) query:
What did
the President
and the
justices and judges know about
J.
Sotomayor’s concealment of assets and cover up, and
when did
they know it?
The
investigation will expose how the Executive Branch
and Congress(171¶371) have in self-interest
exempted the Judiciary from their checks and balances, resulting in judges’
unaccountability, disregard of the law, and
harm to the people,
left at the mercy of judges wielding unaccountable and thus absolute, power
over their rights, property, liberty, and lives.(28fn32)
D.
A story worth investigating because it is unique
It can reasonably be stated that this story is unique: It
allows journalists to expose the dishonesty of a sitting president and a
sitting justice of the Supreme Court and his first nominee to it; of Congress,
which confirmed her and her peers and enables their unaccountability(78§6); and of the Judiciary, allowed to be the most
abusive(21§1), secretive(27§e), and unresponsive(28§3)
of the branches despite the fundamental principle that “justice must not only be done, it must
manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done”(44fn71).
Not even the Watergate Scandal had such scope, yet it led to
the resignation of President Nixon on August 9, 1974, on suspicion of plotting
political espionage and covering it up through
abuse of power.
E. The story-breaking journalists’
gain and impact
To begin with, the journalist and the managing editor who break
the Obama-Sotomayor story will have their reputation enhanced nationally and qualify
for many other moral and material rewards(ol:6§3). Their example will assure a
judge-afraid media of the safety of joining them, for not even federal judges
can retaliate against all their exposers simultaneously.
A public mobilized(163§9) by
outrage will force politicians, lest they be voted out or not into office, to investigate
the story.
The politicians’ subpoena, search and seizure, contempt, and
penal powers will facilitate their tracking income and loans down to the
whereabouts of concealed assets. Their findings will further expose the nature,
gravity, and pervasiveness of public servants’ unaccountability and wrongdoing(cf.
jur:5§3).
They will so exacerbate the outrage of the public as to cause
it to compel historic, democracy-innovating reform of the mechanisms for holding
public servants accountable, e.g., a new statutory or constitutional framework
for a Judiciary that operates transparently and monitored by independent citizen
boards of judicial accountability and discipline.
Thus, the journalist and
managing editor who break the story can have a more substantial impact than The Guardian Columnist Glenn
Greenwald(ol:21), who published the Snowden
leaks:
They can launch a process
leading to a new We the People-government
paradigm where the
people play a direct role in ensuring that public servants are, not above the
law, but only their hired administrators and that in fact government is of,
for, and by the people.
It can spread from the
federal to the state level and on to the rest of the world, which is wont to adopt
our culture and political developments: It can lead to the
People’s
Sunrise.
Dare trigger history!(dcc:11)
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