Time to Jail the Judges Yet Again

Today in the case for judicial responsibility laws, we’re travelling to Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis is sharing the frustration of many of us at judges who continually get away with the most mind-bogglingly dangerous decisions. As I’ve advocated many times, any judge who chooses to turn loose a criminal they should know perfectly well will go on to reoffend should share part of their next sentence. Preferably in the same cell.

Then we might see less blatantly irresponsible decisions like the ones that led directly to the death of five-year-old Missy Mogle, after repeated abuse by her stepfather – a convicted child sex offender who was nonetheless turned loose by Judge Tiffany Baker-Carper.

A judge’s decision not to jail Daniel Spencer after he was found guilty in the earlier sex sting ‒ which left him free on bond just before the murder ‒ led to harsh criticism from State Attorney Jack Campbell and prompted Attorney General James Uthmeier to propose a new law in Missy’s honor.

Not only was Spencer a convicted paedophile, but Missy had repeatedly told classmates and other adults that he was molesting and physically abusing her. Yet, he and her mother were not only given custody of her, over the objections of her grandparents who’d raised her, but the convicted paedophile was turned loose by “the youngest woman and the youngest African American ever elected to [Florida’s 2nd Judicial Circuit]”.

How’s the ‘diversity’ working out?

Gov Ron DeSantis is calling on the Florida House to impeach a Tallahassee judge who briefly released a sex offender onto the streets, resulting in the killing of the man’s five-year-old stepdaughter.

“To my friends in the Florida House of Representatives, I don’t think what you’ve done is enough,” DeSantis said during a Tampa press conference on Tuesday. “You have the power, and you have sufficient numbers in your chamber, to impeach this judge, Tiffany Baker-Carper.

“Until you start holding these judges accountable, they are gonna continue to find ways to benefit the criminal element,” he added […]

DeSantis’ impeachment call came Tuesday as he signed Missy’s Law. A priority bill for Attorney General James Uthmeier, the legislation demands judges keep defendants convicted of dangerous crimes in custody instead of freeing them ahead of sentencing.

It’s probably just as well that Supreme Court justices (probably) can’t be impeached for just being astonishingly dumb.

During oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her case for why the children of foreign tourists ought to qualify for birthright American citizenship if they are born in the United States while their parents are on vacation.

As you’ve probably already guessed, her case was mind-bogglingly idiotic: ‘it’s just like stealing a wallet when you’re on holiday in Japan’.

I’m not making that up.

“I was thinking about this and I think there are various sources that say this, that you can have — you obviously have permanent allegiance based on being born in whatever country you’re from, that’s what everyone recognizes,” Jackson said. “But you also have local allegiance when you are on the soil of this other sovereign […]

And I was thinking, I, US citizen, am visiting Japan and what it means is that, if I steal someone’s wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me. It’s allegiance meaning, can they control you as a matter of law? I can also rely on them if my wallet is stolen to under Japanese law go and prosecute the person who has stolen it. So there’s this relationship, even though I’m a temporary traveler, I’m just on vacation in Japan, I’m still locally owing allegiance in that sense.”

She keeps saying ‘I was thinking’, despite it being blindingly obvious that thinking really isn’t her strong point.

After all, this is the DEI-hire (Joe Biden explicitly stated that he appointed because she is a black woman, as if that’s a qualification) whose oral arguments are a notorious chatterbox of empty air. Jackson, most notorious for being unable to answer such a simple question as ‘What is a woman?’, has racked up a word count that exceeds all the other Supreme Court justices put together. For all that, she is equally notorious for not making a lick of sense. In the words of journalist Jason Whitlock (safely black, as it happens), Jackson “talks too much, which causes her to say dumb things”. Things so dumb that her colleagues on the bench often struggle to understand just what the hell her point is.

And yet, there she is, babbling away and passing judgement on some of the most consequential decisions in US legal history.

The case, known as Trump v. Barbara, will decide whether or not President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for the US-born children of illegal aliens and foreign tourists, often referred to as “anchor babies,” is constitutional […]

Annually, an estimated quarter of a million anchor babies are born to illegal aliens and foreign tourists in the United States. The Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled on the issue. Many leading legal scholars dispute the idea that offering birthright citizenship to such foreign nationals was the intention of the 14th Amendment.

Well, considering that the very author of the 14th Amendment explicitly stated that it was not, there doesn’t seem much to dispute about.

Still, at least Jackson’s witless babbling hasn’t gotten any innocent little girls raped and killed. Yet.