James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.

800 Violet Lane, Oregon, WI 53575
(608) 835-2707 / jfetzer@d.umn.edu

The Biden Commission on Supreme Court reform;
Investigative journalists; and Advocates of Honest Judiciaries

Dear Commissioners, Journalists, and Advocates,

Kindly find below my story of the abuse of power by judges that I have suffered and witnessed as a Pro se defendant. My case is especially egregious because it concerns one of the most controversial and important events of the past decade, a purported mass murder, which has been exploited for political purposes to promote a vigorous gun-control agenda that undermines the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

I am sending it to support my request that you hear me and similarly situated abusees at “public meetings” that the Commission is mandated to hold at the suggestion of Dr. Richard Cordero.  As he observes, you should allow your “meetings” and your report to inform the national public of how justices and judges behave in practice, abusing their power for their gain and convenience because they are unaccountable and their abuse entails no risk to themselves.

And I also agree with Dr. Cordero that, if you limit yourself exclusively to a discussion of the theory of constitutional law and the Supreme Court, then you will have allowed yourselves to be manipulated as a pretext for implementing the foregone political decision to “pack the Court”. It will have no lasting or substantive effect or outcome.

I also request that you journalists join forces with journalism, Information Technology, and business academics to expose judicial abuse of power at the unprecedented citizens hearings proposed by Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.

At those hearings, multidisciplinary panels of journalists and academics can take the testimony of abusees. They can do so LIVE at media stations and university auditoriums across the country as well as via video conference to make it inexpensive and convenient for them and the public to attend. This can launch a MeToo!-like trend of public accountability here and abroad.

As Dr. Cordero has emphasized, this is long overdue: In the 232 years since the creation of the Federal Judiciary in 1789, the number of federal judges impeached and removed is only 8! For comparison, the number of federal officers on the bench on September 30, 2020, was 2,341. Federal judges need not fear losing their jobs. In practice, they have turned public power entrusted to them into the power of a State above the state.

The “meetings” and the citizens hearings can expose the nature, extent, and gravity of judges’ abuse. On that factual basis, the reform can be undertaken of not only the Supreme Court, where in the October 2019-September 2020 fiscal year only “73 cases were argued and 69 were disposed of in 53 signed opinions”, but also the lower federal courts, which terminated 1,103,337 (page 10) in the year to September 30, 2020.

I likewise agree with Dr. Cordero that the citizens’ hearings can be expanded to take the testimony of victims of state judges, who are just as outrageous in their abuse of power.

As Dr. Cordero has observes, these hearings can lead to reforms that take from judges the unaccountability that they have arrogated to themselves and gives back to We the People, the Masters of all public servants, what is our birthright: government by the rule of law where the People exercise their right to hold also their judicial public servants accountable for entrusted power and liable to compensate the victims of their abuse.

Therefore, I request the opportunity to be heard also at the citizens hearings. For your consideration, a summary of my case, DENYING A DEFENDANT A DEFENSE, is attached.

9 November 2021                           /s/ James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.

James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.