American Judges

Chart from Ms. Newell at: Per Quora 8/1/20: The U.S. Courts were created by Article III of The Constitution FEDERAL JUDGES - the President appoints them - they are confirmed by Senate There are three levels: 1. Supreme Court - 9 Justices 2. Court of Appeals / Circuit Courts - 179 judges - they usually work in three judge teams reviewing the decisions of the next level down - They are divided into 13 Districts • 11 hear regional cases • 2 are specialized 3. The lowest level of the Federal Courts is the US District Courts - 677 judges - this is where trials usually takes place. These courts make decisions that affect all of America. The rationale in developing our system of judges was that the U.S. should have three different branches of government to form a check and a balance of each other. In the past dozen years, state and local judges have repeatedly escaped public accountability for misdeeds that have victimized thousands. Nine of 10 kept their jobs, a Reuters investigation found. “Public corruption, the FBI’s top criminal investigative priority, poses a fundamental threat to our national security and way of life. It can affect everything from how well our borders are secured and our neighborhoods protected to how verdicts are handed down in courts to how public infrastructure such as roads and schools are built. It also takes a significant toll on the public’s pocketbooks by siphoning off tax dollars—it is estimated that public corruption costs the U.S. government and the public billions of dollars each year.” “The bribery of a judge may be the worst break of the publics’ trust in government,” said U.S. Attorney Southern District of Texas Ryan K. Patrick, who convicted a District Judge in Houston, Texas, Rudy Delgado, of Bribery “No one – especially a judge – is above the law,” said Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski. “Corrupt judges erode the confidence we have in our judicial system…” The public’s trust and confidence in our judicial system are critical for the stability of our country because without it, we will have chaos. I have always felt that I have no choice but to serve my country, like my son, by exposing Judge Gossett. I wanted to stop him and I did, and I would like him to be punished, not just for me, but for anyone else who might have been a victim of Judge Gossett. In 2017, after working with the San Angelo Standard Times newspaper on the story about my son and Malcolm McBurnett, a person from the newspaper said to me, “You are not the only one who has been hurt by Judge Gossett, but you have been hurt the worst.”