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ChiefB, When the Supreme Court issued this decision about illegals using bogus Social Security numbers I was aghast and wrote about it on my Judicial Salary blog (#198). The decision was unanimous which tells me that those Justices are of one mind when it comes to protecting the interests of illegal aliens. Who benefits from decisions like this? Well, nobody on my block, that's for sure. It benefits big business and corporate interests who want to make it more difficult to deport illegals. They want cheap labor and the tool they use to get it is the federal courts, and to a lesser degree the state courts. If this was the only reprehensible decision the SC had made recently I wouldn't be so upset but there have been many, many more, quite a few of which I have written about here.

When I started writing on this board about my own experience in federal court and argued that federal judges do not deserve a pay raise, based on their dreadful job performance, I was roundly criticized by quite a few people here. I know I was a zealot and strident but I was portrayed as a nutcase by my debating opponent. I have only one analogy for that: In the former Soviet Union dissidents were routinely tossed in mental hospitals as a way to marginalize them and discredit their complaints. These fedeal judges, who have no oversight and no reluctance to issue rulings that are contrary to our best interests, want more money and lots of it. We Americans have no control over them except through the purse strings and my argument is, do a better job and then ask for more money.

When I began my crusade to deprive federal judges of their pay raise (there were bills in Congress to raise it a whopping 51%) I wrote to many, many members of Congress describing what had been done to us in federal court and arguing that if Congress was considering granting the raise, then there should be Congressional debates about it. I said I wanted the attorney who handled our case to be given the opportunity to testify. The debates were not held and the bills expired. I had to use my real name and when I started writing on this board I again used my real name because it was necessary. There are probably a lot of federal judges who want my head on a platter.

Anyway, the federal courts frequently issue rulings that are damaging to us and I am genuinely afraid of them. They do not care about Americans but they do care about money. When they answer to the citizens of this nation, then and only then, should they ask for more money.