Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is reported to have
recently complained about the concept of a "guardian" for the judicial
branch. It seems she was referencing the separate proposals for a
federal court, Inspector General of Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa)
and House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-
Wis). Justice Ginsburg is not the first Supreme Court Justice to
reportedly proclaim that "the judiciary is under assault" in response to
such action. This website goes beyond orchestrating an "assault" on
the judiciary and even seeking judicial accountability.
The fact of the matter is that:
 | a panel of doctors successfully defended the prescription of | |
| Bactrim for Sylvia despite her expert's affidavit and the recommendation by LaRoche ". . . that initial episodes of uncomplicated urinary tract infections be treated with a single effective antibacterial agent rather than the [TMP-SMZ] combination."; |
| Sylvia and her mother may well have received a new trial if | |
| their attorney, Zena Crenshaw, established that any portion or aspect of their case was negatively impacted by an unlawful bias; |
| The effectiveness of judges in flushing out such unlawful bias | |
| through self-regulation is far from clear and has become a matter of high profile, national debate; |
| Also, at least one scholarly article suggests that an attorney | |
| may be punished by lawyers and judges for criticizing the judiciary and/or a judge such as when Zena publicly proclaimed her belief that she was sanctioned with Sylvia and her mother due to unlawful race and/or sex discrimination; |
| Zena's local association of African American attorneys | |
| supported her requests for a thorough investigation of the matter to no avail; |
| In contrast, Zena went from being a reasonably accomplished | |
| attorney with no record of professional discipline to one repeatedly investigated and with limited bar admissions due to her recent suspension for impugning judges on grounds the state has yet to fully investigate; |
| On October 22, 2004, Zena petitioned the U.S. Court of | |
| Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at Chicago to recuse ". . . all justices, judges and magistrates, regularly sitting for the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana to allow for the assignment of a district judge otherwise within the Seventh Circuit to preside over trial below by designation"; |
| The Seventh Circuit denied her petition without comment in | |
| less than a week; |
| On March 29, 2005, a judge of a federal court directly | |
| implicated by Zena's case, acknowledged that it ". . . and cases related to it, have a convoluted history . . .". (p1). He notes that her ". . . complaint outlines a complicated series of interlocking events and lawsuits", (p1), but concludes without discovery or expert testimony that "the behavior Crenshaw alleges was not procedurally or substantially improper", (p12), her repeated characterizations of it as "without probable cause" and untenable, notwithstanding. While suggesting the complaint is miserably obscure, the judge supposedly gleans from it that ". . . Crenshaw's entire case is made up of nothing more than being on the losing end of several lawsuits and bare allegations of joint action and conspiracy". (p9). In fact, he finds ". . . it is even difficult to make out what the broad contours of [Zena's] alleged conspiracy are or its general purpose . . .", (p9), but is somehow persuaded without the benefit of trial that Zena ". . . has been blinded by her passionate, if mistaken, belief that the system is arrayed against her". (p14); |
| Unavailing was the fact that Zena's contentions were obviously | |
| plausible to her trial counsel of record as well as to the attorney for a legal reform organization that unsuccessfully sought to file an amicus brief in support of the case advancing to jury trial; |
| As Zena noted to the Seventh Circuit, her ". . . case alleges a | |
| tentacular scheme to, [among other things], deprive [her] of fair and impartial judges and quasi-judicial officials, utilizing mail and wire services"; |
| Had her allegations advanced in accord with applicable rules of | |
| civil procedure, Zena would have determined through discovery and investigation whether Sylvia's near death experience was likely an isolated incident and/or the result, at least in part, of inadequate product warnings; |
| Instead her claims have largely stalled for nearly ten years, | |
| though they intimate serious, unacknowledged, and avoidable health risks for children. |
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