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by giantg2 1957 days ago
Most states have a judicial conduct board. You can file complaints against them for any misconduct and mistakes they make. If enough people do this, you might be able to cross reference complaints to show that they knowingly violated someone's rights, which fits into official oppression.

I've had a similar experience with a magistrate who was a former cop and retired police chief. He was biased the entire time, violated due process, and made false claims. The complaint is still ongoing. I doubt it will result in much, but it could be useful for future civil cases.

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The problem is a judge can be a 100% bigot, and yet be 100% legally safe for as long as he isn't openly proclaiming himself as such, and follows the process to its utmost.

You can't have a review board, or impeachment do anything with a judge with 100% black prosecution record just because it is such.

That's the paradox. Either you subject judiciary to political judgement, or you can't do anything about judges who are not politically impartial.

But the thing is that they had to apply the law differently to interject that bias/persecution. If you can show that they applied it differently based on race or some other factor, then it should be sufficient... if you have police and a DA that are willing to do their jobs (they aren't, cause they're all buddy buddy). Doing it this way (looking for discrepancy in fact of law without explaination) shouldn't involve politics.