More Shocking News of Power Elite Corrupting Our Legal System: Joe Biden commutes sentence of convicted judge Michael Conahan
Monsters who use our courts to make big bucks on the backs of the commoner should rot in jail the rest of their lives. If they have a jailhouse conversion, they should be content to spread the word to their fellow inmates.
Pardons should go to the now adult children who were sold into confinement for infractions that were nearly harmless. For example, posthumously to the boy who killed himself after spending eight months imprisoned for drinking while under aged. Not to the evil child abusers like Michael Conahan or now deceased Commissioner Alan Friedenthal.
I don’t advocate physical violence. I am smart enough to know that there will be an escalation of protest against the domination of a few over the masses. These pardons and commutations by the Biden Crime Family Boss might be the catapult.
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I am not a lawyer. I have been writing about the legal system for about 15 years. Mostly, I expose corrupt judges and attorneys.
In all this time, no one has sued me for copyright infringement for posting legal documents they generated. This makes me think reposting legal documents is fair game.
My blog is not monetized. It is useful in other ways. Feel free to repost and share my stories in any way you want. I just ask that you give attribution, and if you make changes, don’t represent the edited version as mine. Don’t be a Rudofsky and truncate sentences while keeping them in quotation marks.
When I checked my stats this morning, on my phone, there were 26 downloads of my filed appeal reply brief against Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC. (By the time I walked upstairs to my computer, that number increased.) It struck me that a few days ago, maybe even weeks, there were exactly 26 downloads of a document.
That would be cool with me, if some law school professor was using my documents as a tool. I don’t care if it is to ridicule the pro se litigant or because the professor thinks the document is well written. It is my purpose to improve our world. If sharing my documents helps, get them out there.
Thank you.
Go, Steve Lehto, Go! Exposing the idiocy of our judges.
It seems like most of us commoners are losing or lost our faith in the legal system.
Hey, please send Mr. Lehto my posts about the Portfolio Recovery Associates case that is at the Supreme Court. He might get a kick out of how “textualist” Lee Rudofsky truncated a sentence to completely change the meaning and then based his decision to deny a jury trial on that miscomprehension.
Falsified Record at the U.S. Supreme Court?
The jury is still out.
My Pro Se Petition for Writ of Certiorari has about a .00000000001 % chance of being granted. It is almost unheard of for SCOTUS to review cases brought by pro se litigants.
There was a moment on December 9, 2024 when my heart raced and I shook and spoke like the men on the hunting videos my husband watches, right after they kill a buck. I thought I might have a heart attack. My docket had the words “motion granted”.
That was just a motion, not the petition for writ of certiorari.
Having the motion I filed granted was a big deal standing alone. It felt the same as seeing my 162 on the LSAT this past August. My motion asked for documents the lower courts kept sealed to be seen by you, the Public. Those documents were posted on this blog immediately.
Then the let down. Someone from the Supreme Court called me back to verify that it was the motion that was granted. She said that only the part of the motion asking for the documents to be filed under seal initially, to be in compliance with the lower court orders, was granted. She said that the justices understood that I was asking to unseal those documents and they were keeping them sealed at the Supreme Court.
There was no explanation of why the docket failed to mention my motion to unseal, and why there was no copy of my motion filed on the docket. There was no indication that there was a motion to unseal, even to say the motion itself was filed under seal.
There is a mechanism for me to purchase a certified copy of the motion filed. I will do that.
In the meantime, I checked the appendix to see what was made available to the public. The clerk scanned all the documents I filed, other than the four under seal. The guidance given by the Supreme Court says that only orders and required appendices will be scanned. “The Court’s practice is to scan and make available on its website most filings submitted by litigants representing themselves. The Court scans petitions, motions to proceed in forma pauperis, proofs of service, and the portion of an appendix that includes relevant lower court opinions and rulings. While the Court does not scan other portions of an appendix from a pro se litigant, the entire appendix is fully a part of the Court’s record and is available to the Justices.” Motions to seal are typically not available as links on their dockets. But other motions, like extensions of time, are. I have not found any other motion to unseal yet.
The appendix as scanned by the Supreme Court clerk is posted below for you to download. The clerk added an order that I did not include. It starts at electronic page 302. It is the order concerning my motion to settle the record, claiming the transcript of a hearing was falsified.
That this order was added to the appendix is promising for one reason. Obviously, someone looked carefully at my filing. The question of the accuracy or inaccuracy of the record is notable to the highest court.
So, why make their own record inaccurate? Why not mention that my motion also asked to unseal? Why not post the motion and write “denied in part”? Or write that the motion to unseal will be considered separately? At this point, it feels a little like reading the transcript that left out a lecture by Judge Rudofsky. I’m positive I don’t hallucinate. Why try to gaslight me? Hopefully the motion to unseal (and the motion to settle the record) will be revisited upon grant of certiorari. Hope and prayers.
Red Alert! Subscribers, Do Not Open Appendices in December 9th Post. Motion was Denied in Part, According to Verbal Instruction from SCOTUS Staff
I filed a motion to seal and then unseal documents in the Portfolio Recovery Associates case that is at the United States Supreme Court on Writ of Certiorari.
The motion was docketed only as a motion to seal.
The motion was granted.
The motion was not available on the SCOTUS website. Here it is.
I called the clerk to confirm that “motion granted” referred only to the motion here, not my petition for writ of certiorari. The next day a woman called. I was cooking lunch and did not write down what she said. My memory is that the court decided to seal the documents in the Supreme Court, they understood that I was asking to unseal, and they did not grant that part of the motion. She did not know why, she said, that they did not say “denied in part” or mention the request to unseal. She agreed to send me a letter putting this in writing, which I have not received yet.
I hope they intend to address the unsealing issue later. For now, according to the woman who called me from the court’s phone, the appendices attached to the December 9, 2024 post you received by email are still sealed. You should treat them as such. Thank you.
UPDATE: The email notification of my post was not showing up on my account earlier today. Since no emails were coming in, I checked my settings and realized I had the wrong tab open. I checked my email of the post with the sealed appendices and the appendices opened. A copy I forwarded to my secondary email also allowed me to open the appendices.
There is still nothing in writing that says my motion was denied in part. It is not contemptuous of me to have interpreted “motion granted” to mean “motion granted in full”. Somehow, I know I will be thrown in the Gulag for my insubordination though. How sad a world in which we live.
Pro Se Motion to SCOTUS Granted: UPDATE: Staff Member Told Me the Motion was Granted In Part
The Motion docketed on October 7, 2024 was titled “Hammett’s Motion to Filed Sealed Documents, Unseal Those Documents and All Lower Court Documents Referred to by the Court in Its Decision”
Hammett gave abundant caselaw supporting the public’s right to access to evidence that was used by the court when deciding to grant Portfolio Recovery Associates’ motion for summary dismissal.
The conclusion of Hammett’s Motion:
“For the reasons stated above, Hammett respectfully requests that the Court grant her motion for public access to the sealed judicial records, unseal Appendices aa, bb, cc, and dd, and require PRA to provide specific justification for maintaining under seal any documents referenced by the district court in its orders granting summary judgment to PRA and denying partial summary judgment to Hammett.
Transparency and fairness in the judicial process demand no less.”
UPDATE: The following four appendices were posted here on December 9, 2024.
Appendix aa
Appendix bb
Appendix cc
Appendix dd
These documents were ordered to be sealed by Federal District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the order.
The United States Supreme Court made a docket entry that did not mention Hammett’s request to unseal the documents. The motion was not available on the SCOTUS website.
Because the Supreme Court Clerk wrote only “motion granted” on the docket on December 9th, Hammett made the reasonable assumption that the motion was granted in full. It is common practice in all other courts for the orders to specify “denied in part” if they are denied in part.
Here is the backstory:
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC buys questionable debt from originators for pennies on the dollar. Some of the debt purchased was generated on Walmart branded credit cards. Judge Rudofsky was counsel to Walmart before his lifetime appointment to the bench. He appears to be a puppet for the oligarchy of Big Business.
Portfolio Recovery Associates lied in the proceedings I brought against them, understating the number of times they called me, and making the false claim that they did not call my cell phone in the months leading up to when I recorded a conversation. Purportedly, I turn on my computer, open the camera and record the conversation every time I get a call.
Judge Rudofsky pretended that I had no evidence of PRA’s spoliation of evidence. UPDATE: here is where appendix aa, bb, and dd prove that PRA spoiled evidence by keeping inaccurate, incomplete records of contacts.
Appendix cc proves that PRA and Judge Rudofsky came up with a cockamamie rationalization that failing to issue a 1099-C to me was not proof that the debt was not legitimate. I did not receive one of these forms, but PRA said they “waived” my alleged debt after I filed the lawsuit against them. Judge Rudofsky and the Eighth Circuit pretended that they believed PRA, that I owed the debt and PRA waived the debt without a settlement agreement.
First, why would a script be confidential? This is something PRA representatives repeated to numerous alleged debtors. The reason PRA and their stooge judges wanted it covered up is because it didn’t jibe with PRA’s lie.
Countless debtors have asked: “Why did I receive a 1099-C?” The PRA representative says: “The IRS requires us to file 1099c’s because you either settled your debt, or PRA determined the debt was not collectable and stopped collection efforts.” PRA attorney James Trefil of Troutman Pepper stood in open court and said that the reason PRA did not make a 1099-C against me was that PRA determined the debt was not collectable and stopped collection efforts “in light of the ongoing litigation”. That is the exact reason PRA would be required to file a 1099-C. The reason they did not file the 1099-C is because they knew the debt was not legitimate, and lying to the IRS might get them in trouble. (No such worry existed when lying to Judge Rudofsky and the Eighth.)
The debt buyer is required to file a 1099-C even for disputed legitimate debt. Then the debtor can file for an exemption based on hardship or that they dispute the debt. This is what the IRS says in their instruction booklet.
UPDATE: Whether my petition for writ of certiorari is granted or not, you the public should be able to see with your own eyes that the Federal Courts failed to provide justice, allowed for a Star-Chamber and appear to favor Big Business over individual citizens. Thus far, the Supreme Court is not going to let you, either.
I posted the documents and had numerous downloads. Is there a way to unring that bell?
Hopefully SCOTUS revisits the motion after the petition for writ of certiorari is docketed. But wouldn’t they have made some reference to that procedure on the motion docket??? Seriously, if anyone has experience with Supreme Court procedure, comment or send me a private message to bohemian_books@yahoo.com.
UPDATE December 11, 2024: For some reason unknown to my non-tech mind, the appendices I posted on December 9, 2024 can still be accessed. There was a download of two of them this morning.
Maybe people who receive my blog by email are able to access the files that I deleted on the 10th. I did not receive an emailed copy. I used to get the emailed copies and they did not change after I edited a post.
Biden Kills Any Hope of Justice for All…Maybe.
Both “sides of the aisle” are corrupt as all Hell.
The Republicans have Judge Susan Weaver of Arkansas, and Trump appointees Judge Lee P Rudofsky and Todd W. Robinson.
Democrats gave us Federal Judge Linda Lopez.
Now Joe Biden made it clear. There will be no justice if any of the oligarchy are involved. Pardon his son, but not the multitudes of commoners convicted of similar drug related crimes. I know one man who did his time for growing weed, and he did not own a gun. An inordinate percentage of the incarcerations are men who have darker pigmentation than the Bidens.
Maybe I should keep my mouth shut until the transfer of power is complete. I’m not certain that Daddy Biden can’t pardon himself for all the crimes he committed while in office. If not, hopefully he can be charged as an accessory to the crimes committed by his son.
Just brainstorming here, but what would the effect of an impeachment of Joe Biden be? Or if it can be proven that he was complicit in an act that he pardoned?
Think about the trial. Hunter could not plead the fifth. But if he lies, that will be perjury. lol
I can’t say the Trump lawyers are honest, but they are smart. Try using some of that genius for goodness instead of evil. Stop the Biden pardon.
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