Thursday, May 15, 2008

NY Daily News Editorial: Unfit for the Bench

Judges out of order
EDITORIAL - The New York Daily News - May 13, 2008

The state Commission on Judicial Conduct Monday issued an unusual and welcome statement warning judges not to court trouble by refusing to handle cases involving state legislators. New York's judiciary is aggrieved that the Legislature - actually Speaker Sheldon Silver's Assembly - is denying the jurists a pay raise after nine years of going without. And the judges are right to be angry that Silver is holding their incomes hostage to a pay hike for his members.

Chief Judge Judith Kaye has filed suit to force the Legislature to act, but some of her colleagues have taken to bowing out of matters when a legislator or a legislator's law firm shows up in a case. They are engaging in peevish payback that's unfit for the bench. The judges have right on their side. They should keep it that way. 

5 comments:

  1. for her wanton acts and the mayhem that she has personally inflicted on the NYS Judicial System she deserves to be impeached, tarred and feathered and run out of NYS on a rail along with all her comrades.

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  2. Also tuck under her arm,all the letters she received and ignored reporting the massive discrimination and bias that was rampant in her courthouses throughout the STATE OF NY!

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  3. Dishonest judges have been giving honest judges a bad name for too long.

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  4. Judith Kaye is unfit to be alluded to as a Judge. That also goes for all her friends that are effectively on strike.......they are unfit to be on the bench...

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  5. all these bums in black dresses are unfit, get rid of them all - let them go out to the world and attempt to make an honest living if that's possible for them.

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