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# Absolute Power Has Turned the California Judiciary into a Criminal Enterprise
July 07 2021
Written by Richard Lee Abrams.
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VIEW FROM HERE-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote in 1913, “If the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects.”
Because the California judiciary permits no sunlight into its perfidy, it has become the most destructive institution to the lives of Californians. Neither the governor nor the legislature has the power to suppress any and all inquiry into their predatory abuses as does the California Supreme Court. Without transparency, the public remains clueless. Here is some sunlight.
**Judicial Immunity Is a Secular Evil**
On July 5, 2021, my article in CityWatch [explained](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/22009-judicial-immunity-has-created-a-criminal-class) how the court abuses its immunity for its criminal actions, but the situation is more complex than mere immunity. The California Supreme Court has an elaborate governmental structure to protect its criminal behavior and get rid of any dissent. In addition to the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye’s (photo above) control over all cases within the state court system, she also dominates the two associated institutions which were allegedly designed to protect the public, both of which have been perverted into vicious predators, (1) The Commission of Judicial Performance (CJP), and (2) The State Bar.
Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye chairs the Commission on Judicial Performance. In other words, the person who presides over the unethical and criminal behavior of judges is the same person who chairs the organization which will discipline the judges. Could there be any more corrupt arrangement than to place the Criminal in Chief in charge? The record shows that this system has been a [complete failure](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles/13218-whitewashing-judicial-misconduct-rules-the-day-in-california) to protect the public.
The CJP has a unique procedure in which any complaint against a judge first is screened by three judges who may, in complete secrecy, exclude any evidence which is harmful to the judge against whom the complaint is made. Suppose all complaints made against police officers were first screened by three fellow officers who would cleanse the record before the case went to Police Commission?
Since Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye has the power to promote or deny the promotion of any judge within the California judiciary, each judge has to curry her favor. If by some bizarre circumstance, the CJP should find the behavior of some judge meriting discipline, that judge can appeal to the Supreme Court to have his/her discipline voided.
“No court, except the Supreme Court, shall have jurisdiction in a civil action or other legal proceeding of any sort brought against the commission by a judge.” Cal Const. Art VI, Sec 18(g) In other words, if the CJP should act vindictively and without cause against an honest judge and that judge should bring a lawsuit against it can only be heard by the Chief Justice who also heads the organization against which the civil action is brought. That is no different than a rule that only Vladimir Putin can hear any legal challenge brought by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. California judges have three choices: (1) actively participate in the criminality, (2) become an accomplice by silence or (3) get out.
**Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye Controls the State Bar**
While the California State Bar Association which disciplines attorneys for misconduct claims to be “the only state bar in the nation with independent professional judges dedicated to ruling on attorney discipline cases” (State Bar website), the statement is false. The ultimate authority rests with Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye’s Supreme Court. If the State Bar should foolishly rule against one of the Chief Justice’s buddies, it will be set aside. If the State Bar rules against an innocent attorney, whom the Chief Justice dislikes, the State Bar will be affirmed.
**The Judiciary’s Process to Get Rid of Attorneys Who Complain about Judicial Corruption**
**Step One** - Frame the Attorney
The trial court manufactures evidence against the attorney. Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye’s interpretation of Cal Const art VI sec 10 allows judges to exclude attorneys from hearings, allows judges to manufacture evidence and alter testimony. This tactic is similar to what Putin used against Alexei Navalny. Putin had the [authorities manufacturer false evidence](https://www.newsweek.com/timeline-attacks-alexei-navalny-vladimir-putin-biggest-critic-russia-poison-1526386) and then use those false charges to [incarcerate Navalny](https://www.vox.com/22254292/alexei-navalny-prison-hunger-strike-end-russia-protests-vladimir-putin).
**Step Two** - Impose Huge Monetary Penalty
The trial court orders monetary sanctions against the attorney. When the attorney cannot pay the money, the State Bar brings charges.
**Step Three** - Prevent Exculpating Evidence
The attorney may not introduce evidence of his/her innocence due to another case which the Chief Justice supports, In re Joseph Collins. That case prevents the attorney from showing that the case on which his disciplined is based is wrong. It does not matter whether the underlying case was in violation of state or even federal due process or based on evidence which the court had manufactured or on perjury. Under the Collins case, the attorney may not introduce the exculpating evidence.
**Step Four** - Jail the Attorney
Even in Russia, however, Alexei Navalny was allowed to introduce evidence. That, however, did not deter the Russian courts which were under Putin’s control. Barring evidence is such an offense against international law that even Putin had to allow Navalny plead his case before jailing him. Under the Collins case, the attorney may not even present evidence of innocence before being disbarred, fined, and then jailed under the concept of coercive confinement as happened to [attorney Richard I Fine](http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/24/jailed.lawyer.richard.fine/).
**Power Corrupt, but Corruption Destroys**
The structure of the California judicial system where the same person dominates the courts, the Commission on Judicial Performance and the State Bar is designed to turn the judiciary into a criminal enterprise. All it takes is a few ruthless psychopaths to gain key positions. Attorneys turn cowards selling out their clients as has become standard practice in Probate Conservatorship Court with Britney Spears being the most famous current example. Back in January 2015, the federal courts [pointed out the corruption](https://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-lying-prosecutors-20150201-story.html#page=1) in the California state courts**.**
Matters have become worst since 2015. Judge Kozinski was subsequently booted from the court and the predatory abuse in state courts has grown. We are subjected to a degree of bipartisan criminality beyond our imagination. That is what protects the judicial perps most of all – our inability to realize that the corruption is systemic and how it is destroying our society.
*(Richard Lee Abrams has been an attorney, a realtor and community relations consultant as well as a CityWatch contributor. The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of CityWatch. You may email him at* [RickLeeAbrams@Gmail.com](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/%2522mailto:))
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