Take a Stand Against Abuse of Power

Secretive and cozy judicial oversight systems enable judges to subvert accountability in many states. Exhibit A: Oklahoma, where not a single judge was publicly disciplined in 14 years. When the state finally did charge a judge with wrongdoing, he was allowed to resign, his record pristine and his pension intact All paid by tax payers who were wrongfully judged in many cases. By MICHAEL BERENS and JOHN SHIFFMAN in BARTLESVILLE, OKLAHOMA District Court Judge Curtis DeLapp wa

Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench CLICK LINK TO PULL UP LIST OF JUDGES WHO WERE DISCIPLINED BY STATE In the past dozen years, state and local judges have repeatedly escaped public accountability for misdeeds that have victimized thousands. Nine of 10 kept their jobs, a Reuters investigation found – including an Alabama judge who unlawfully jailed hundreds of poor people, many of them Black, over traffic fines. By MICHAEL BERENS and JOHN S

TALLAHASSEE- Five judges from the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County have been reprimanded by the Florida Supreme Court for improperly interfering in a contract procurement process being run by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF). Eleventh Circuit Judges Rosa Figarola, Marcia Caballero, Teresa Pooler, and Mavel Ruiz signed a letter originally drafted by Judge Cindy Lederman (pictured) advocating on behalf of a private company, Our Kids, Inc., whi