{"id":95437,"date":"2021-11-11T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=95437"},"modified":"2021-11-11T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:56:18","slug":"james-h-fetzer-ph-d-on-denying-a-defendant-a-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=95437","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. on Denying a Defendant a Defense<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Re: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicial-discipline-reform.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.judicial-discipline-reform.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636728861087000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0PIRnBoFkXL2uY4heK1Ywq\">https:\/\/www.judicial-<wbr \/>discipline-reform.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">800 Violet Lane, Oregon, WI 53575<br \/>\n(608) 835-2707 \/\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jfetzer@d.umn.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jfetzer@d.umn.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Biden Commission on Supreme Court reform;<br \/>\nInvestigative journalists; and Advocates of Honest Judiciaries<\/p>\n<p>Dear Commissioners, Journalists, and Advocates,<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I am sending it to support my request that you hear me and similarly situated abusees at \u201cpublic meetings\u201d that the Commission is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/04\/09\/president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-creating-the-presidential-commission-on-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/04\/09\/president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-creating-the-presidential-commission-on-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636728861087000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3bvMK2QWyVYCEzAA0Duoqu\">mandated<\/a>\u00a0to hold at the suggestion of Dr. Richard Cordero.\u00a0 As he observes, you should allow your \u201cmeetings\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cpack the Court\u201d. It will have no lasting or substantive effect or outcome.<\/p>\n<p>I also request that you journalists join forces with journalism, Information Technology, and business academics to expose judicial abuse of power at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/judicial-discipline-reform.org\/OL2\/DrRCordero_citizens_hearings_outrage_compensation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/judicial-discipline-reform.org\/OL2\/DrRCordero_citizens_hearings_outrage_compensation.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636728861087000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2cye4aEU5mQSWUhS-EPLyc\">unprecedented citizens hearings<\/a>\u00a0proposed by Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<em>MeToo!<\/em>-like trend of public accountability here and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>As Dr. Cordero has emphasized, this\u00a0is long overdue: In the 232 years since the creation of the Federal Judiciary in 1789, the number of federal judges impeached and removed is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/impeachments-federal-judges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/impeachments-federal-judges&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636728861087000&amp;usg=AOvVaw19cgG5LvDp87qwmqId-t0Y\">only 8!<\/a>\u00a0For comparison, the number of federal officers on the bench on September 30, 2020, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/statistics-reports\/judicial-business-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/statistics-reports\/judicial-business-2020&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636728861087000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ktjzNMF5VsYVNs2XFRqwL\">2,341<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cmeetings\u201d and the citizens hearings can expose the nature, extent, and gravity of judges\u2019 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 \u201c73 cases were argued and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/publicinfo\/year-end\/2020year-endreport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/publicinfo\/year-end\/2020year-endreport.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636728861087000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0xivZ8EPjHkzsETWjp2Pog\">69 were disposed of<\/a>\u00a0in 53 signed opinions\u201d, but also the lower federal courts, which terminated 1,103,337 (<a href=\"http:\/\/judicial-discipline-reform.org\/OL2\/DrRCordero_individual_files_links.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/judicial-discipline-reform.org\/OL2\/DrRCordero_individual_files_links.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636728861087000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2fEncHKsW21iTH21MHFxh4\">page 10<\/a>) in the year to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/statistics-reports\/analysis-reports\/judicial-facts-and-figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/statistics-reports\/analysis-reports\/judicial-facts-and-figures&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636728861087000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3kg4XS_cTFTQxBNifsoI7e\">September 30, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I likewise agree with Dr. Cordero that the citizens&#8217; hearings can be expanded to take the testimony of victims of state judges, who are just as outrageous in their abuse of power.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<em>We the People<\/em>, the Masters of all public servants, what is our birthright: government by the rule of law where\u00a0<em>the People<\/em>\u00a0exercise their right to hold also their judicial public servants accountable for entrusted power and liable to compensate the victims of their abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I request the opportunity to be heard also at the citizens hearings. For your consideration, a\u00a0summary of my case, DENYING A DEFENDANT A DEFENSE, is attached.<\/p>\n<p>9 November 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\/s\/ James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Denying-a-Defendant-a-Defense-9-November-2021.pdf\">Denying a Defendant a Defense (9 November 2021)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}