Everyone, please contact Sen. Feinstein's office and tell her your thoughts on nominating Judge Carlo Moreno for US Supreme Court.

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(202)224-3841


May 14, 2009



In today’s Los Angeles Times, a story (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-court-kagan14-2009may14,3,3950692.story) mentions Senator Diane Feinstein’s nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno for the U.S. Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Souter.



Carlos Moreno was previously a L.A. County Superior Court judge, and was a recipient of the illegal payments, for which he later received retroactive immunity.



Carlos Moreno is the judge who denied Richard’s Petition For Review. He knew well the case against Richard, which included the charge that Richard had made a “frivolous” claim by saying that judges got illegal payments. But Moreno knew that the underlying lawsuit, Sturgeon v. County of Los Angeles, was upheld … and the payments to judges were illegal. (And there would have been no reason for Moreno to have received retroactive immunity if the payments he received were legal, and the corresponding dive in cases lost by Los Angeles County before its Superior Court judges was not evidence of wrongdoing requiring immunity.)



Further, Moreno voted in favor of Richard’s disbarment, knowing Richard was being deprived of his First Amendment rights.



No person of Moreno’s character is fit to sit on any court, much less the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.



In contrast, two honest judges in Richard’s Federal case challenging the law (Judge Dale S. Fischer & Judge George H. Wu, also former L.A. County Superior Court judges), properly recused (disqualified) themselves from presiding over Richard’s case against the State Bar seeking to have his disbarment reversed. Moreno should have recused himself from Richard’s case as well, but failed and refused to do so, despite his obvious complicity and bias.



Richard feels confident that getting this information out, in light of Moreno’s recent nomination and during the resultant publicity, will bring much-needed public exposure to Richard’s disbarment and the fact that he’s being held in jail. This will bring total attention to Richard’s situation, total attention into what they did in his disbarment, and total attention to the California judicial situation.



So, team, please spread the news however you're able. AHRC raised the issue last week in its newsletter, and Richard will speak to Leslie Dutton. In addition, Richard asked me to disseminate this to the L.A. Times and our contacts at the Daily News. If you have contacts with other outlets, your help in sharing the above is appreciated!!



Thanks!