Protectionism of Case Fixing is Alive and Well in U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago
As a country we are unfortunately at a point in time where the federal judiciary has in all reality turned itself into a criminal enterprise system with the chief judges of the circuits serving in the role of head of the syndicate of the circuit. The definition of organized crime is a national centralized enterprise run by criminals to engage in illegal activity. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago fits this definition. In February 2018, retired Judge Richard A. Posner appointed me to serve as the executive director of the Posner Center of Justice for Pro Se’s and in March 2018, I traveled to Chicago to meet Judge Posner for lunch where Judge Posner disclosed to me that during the pendency of my appeal of a civil rights case against Valparaiso Indiana police years ago that Judge Michael S. Kanne had initiated an ex parte conversation with Judge Posner and called me a “troublemaker” and that Kanne “had it in for” me. Judge Posner then disclosed to me that Judge Kanne had asked Judge Posner in ex parte fashion — as a “favor” to Judge Kanne — to make sure that I did not prevail in my appeal against the Valparaiso police as Judge Posner was on the panel, to which Kanne was not. Judge Posner admitted that, regrettably, he (Judge Posner) had succumbed to Kanne’s “pressure” and therefore had accommodated Kanne’s “request” to have the district court’s decision in favor of the Valparaiso police affirmed even though Judge Posner knew that it “should have been reversed.” Judge Posner added that he knew what he did “was wrong,” but that this was “something that judges did for one another from time to time.” Judge Posner… Read More
