Big Brother To Watch Judges?

One week from today, the U.S. Judicial Conference will decide whether judges and their staff can handle grown-up responsibilities like ... using the internet. No, you did not click onto The Onion by mistake: after heated disagreement earlier this year, the issue is coming to a head. Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has a great Wall Street Journal opinion piece, today only. (It wants your email; try me@privacy.net.) Jeffrey Rosen's analysis in TNR is another good take on it. If you don't think the men and women who hold people's lives in their hands need daddy and mommy looking over their shoulder, you might take a moment to fire off a quick, polite email per the EFF's suggestion. If surveillance can invade a judge's workplace, it's for damnsure there's nothing keeping it out of yours.

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Wrong thing to focus on...

[toupsie]

Who cares if Federal Judges are surfing the Stileproject to look at kitty cats being stir fried? (yumm, General Tsao Kitty) I am more concerned with the conversations Federal Judges are having in the backrooms. I want their private deals to be made public. Who the heck knows what they are doing and how it affects our freedom. Are we to trust these people with our liberty when they feel they are above the standards of ordinary Federal employees? At least with the other two branches of government, citizens have the ability to directly remove the corrupt. Its almost impossible to remove a seated Federal judge.