JudicialDeceit Tyranny & Unnecessary Secrecy at the Michigan Supreme Court - December 2014 -- A review in the The Michigan Bar Journal

John R. Runyan, managing director of Sachs Waldman in Detroit, also serves as vice chair of the State Bar Publications and Website Advisory Committee, where he oversees publication of the Michigan Bar Journal. Mr. Runyan took that time to give the book a careful read and a thoughtful review.

READ REVIEW HERE:http://www.michbar.org/journal/pdf/pdf4article2513.pdf

A Book by Chief Justice Elizabeth A. Weaver (retired) and David B. Schock, Ph.D.

In an unprecedented retelling of modern judicial history, a retired chief justice gives us a glimpse inside the way things have worked at the Michigan Supreme Court.

The book reveals much that has hitherto been hidden from public knowledge. But even at 770 pages, the justice says the tome is “only a little more than the tip of the iceberg.”
The story is told through court documents, internal communications, and detailed interviews. The book also compiles media accounts and other interviews that put the history in context. Through it all is the narrative of the justice who—at great personal cost—led the struggle to let the people of Michigan know what had been going on.
In her nearly 16 years on the Michigan Supreme Court, Elizabeth Ann Weaver has seen just how justice can move from mostly serving the public to the ways it can be put to use for political, personal, and ideological gain.
She maintains that purpose in her most recent revelations: the book is written to share with citizens the need for reform in the way the state selects its justices and to illustrate the need to eliminate unnecessary secrecy and to encourage openness and transparency in the transaction of the people’s judicial business. (There is an appendix in the book that lists recommended reforms.)
Weaver began her judicial career as a part-time probate/juvenile trial judge in sparsely populated Leelanau County. By dint of her ability, determination, and her character she was elected six more times including twice more at the trial court, twice at the Court of Appeals (a district representing 66 counties of 3.1 million people), and twice at the Supreme Court (all 83 of the state’s counties of then more than 10 million people).
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Equal justice? NOT in Michigan!

Justice Elizabeth Weaver exposed the corruption in the MI Supreme Court in her book "Judicial Deceit". These facts have not been contested.
Now the Ann Magazine exposes the same situation in the Washtenaw County Courts. I personally know of sordid activities in the Court of Chief  Judge David Swartz as his rulings allowed the University of Michigan to steal the $300,000 grant which I had obtained to fund a guest professor program for the teaching of Aircraft Design. 
Do you ever wonder when you vote for a judge why:
The myth of nonpartisanship?
The designation of incumbent?
The number of candidates less than or equal the number of vacancies? 
Stalin had a similar system in the late 1930's. America now also has attributes of a totalitarian nation.
The citizens by ignoring the domination of the party bosses must act now!
READ MORE:http://theprettylieortheuglytruth.blogspot.com/2014/11/equal-justice-not-in-michigan.html