First order of the day – JCW sincerely wishes you all a happy, safe and prosperous new year.
I figure this thread should be about new years’ resolutions for California’s judicial branch. While I have a list of my own resolutions, I believe those who serve in the trenches can come up with a few key resolutions of their own that would serve to improve things like transparency, accountability, access, and fairness in California’s judicial branch. With that being said, let’s build a list of resolutions in an effort to seek redress from systems that exist only because we as citizens permit them to. Feel free to add a resolution to the thread or drop me an email at judicialcouncilwatcher@hushmail.com. Tonight, I will begin assembling the list of judicial branch resolutions and edit this post and build upon this list of resolutions throughout the week.
Resolution No 1. All judges and court employees/appointees shall follow the laws of the United States of America and the State of California.
Resolution No. 2. Bad apples shall be promptly removed so they don’t spoil the whole branch.
Resolution No. 3. Dead wood will be pruned and weeds will be pulled.
Resolution No. 4. Lessons from the past will be learned by heart so that history does not repeat itself. Judicial oppression and corruption is abhorred and will be ferociously attacked and exposed – not respected.
Resolution No. 5: Tomorrow is a new day. Let’s plant and nurture new seeds of truth and justice, give those who deserve it the benefit of the doubt and then reap what we sow.
Resolution No. 6: Judges shall rule based upon the facts and the law, not personal interests, personal preferences, feuds, friendships, politics, debts owed, or other legally irrelevant factors.
Resolution No. 7: Down with AOC bureaucracy, up with fiscal responsibility.
Resolution No. 8: Integrity, honesty, fiscal responsibility and good work in the branch shall be encouraged and rewarded at all levels.
Judicial Council Watcher 
JusticeCalifornia
January 3, 2011
Resolution No 1. All judges and court employees/appointees shall follow the laws of the United States of America, and California.
JusticeCalifornia
January 3, 2011
Resolution No. 2. Bad apples shall be promptly removed, so they don’t spoil the whole branch.
JusticeCalifornia
January 3, 2011
Resolution No. 3. Dead wood will be pruned, and weeds will be pulled.
JusticeCalifornia
January 3, 2011
Resolution No. 4. Lessons from the past will be learned by heart, so history does not repeat itself. Judicial oppression and corruption is abhorred, and will be ferociously attacked and exposed, not respected.
JusticeCalifornia
January 3, 2011
Resolution No. 5: Tomorrow is a new day. Let’s plant and nurture new seeds of truth and justice, give those who deserve it the benefit of the doubt, and then reap what we sow.
JC
judicialcouncilwatcher
January 4, 2011
Thank you JC for your input and feel free to submit more. Others certainly have ideas and for the meantime, I am holding back my own and am letting you the reader drive the bus. With the amount of reads we’re getting, I’m still confident that most of the judicial branch is reading this blog. If you fear posting your suggestions, make your way over to the secure private messaging link on the About and Privacy Statement page found on the index bar below the “long road to reform” picture.
JusticeCalifornia
January 4, 2011
Resolution No. 6: Judges shall rule based upon the facts and the law, not personal interests, personal preferences, feuds, friendships, politics, debts owed, or other legally irrelevant factors.
JusticeCalifornia
January 4, 2011
Resolution No. 7: Down with AOC bureaucracy, up with fiscal responsibility.
JusticeCalifornia
January 4, 2011
Resolution No. 8: Integrity, honesty, fiscal responsibility and good work in the branch shall be encouraged and rewarded at all levels.
JusticeCalifornia
January 6, 2011
It is so interesting that so very few of us (none of whom appear to be judges) dare to speak out against third branch corruption, but we do so for so many. And those of us who speak out do so at our peril, at personal cost, without protection.
This is not our job.
ALL judges, court adminstrators/employees/appointees/contractors (including prestigious law firms), and law enforcement entities out there who are paid by the public to serve and protect the public ought to be speaking out against and protecting the public from judicial branch corruption, wherever they find it. And if they are too afraid to do so, they should resign, because they are not honestly serving the taxpayers who are paying them to protect them and uphold the laws of this country and state.
Resolution No. 9: Those in the judicial branch who cannot properly fulfill their duties and serve the public with honesty, fairness, integrity and courage shall promptly resign.
JusticeCalifornia
January 6, 2011
You know, I left out the Commission on Judicial Performance, which for years has performed reacharounds and let horrific judicial travesties pass without comment or redress.
If you guys and gals at the CJP are so cowed/enamoured/intimidated and/or compromised that cannot do your jobs and protect the public, fess up, tell the legislature and the governor, and let someone else protect the public from bad judges.
Wendy Darling
January 6, 2011
Speaking of judges . . . why the silence from the ACJ?
JusticeCalifornia
January 6, 2011
indeed.
JusticeCalifornia
January 6, 2011
Resolution No. 10: In 2011 the CA judicial branch, under new, ethical, progressive leadership, shall a) recognize that it exists to serve and protect the public; b) first and foremost promote truth, justice and the rule of law; c) learn from, admit, and remedy past mistakes; d) reunite the branch; e) adopt and implement sound and responsible fiscal policies and f) via all of the above, resurrect public trust and confidence in the branch.
Amen, and happy new year. JC
JusticeCalifornia
January 9, 2011
So I wonder who is going to be replacing retiring CA Supreme Court Associate Justice Carlos Moreno. . . ..