Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Jonathan Newell, a Republican, was the circuit court judge for Caroline County in Maryland, when he took a young boy. The boy discovered a hidden camera in the bathroom and his parents went to the police. The police interviewed other boys he had invited hunting and they all told of stripping naked to be checked for ticks.
Andrew Napolitano was a Superior Court Judge in New Jersey and worked for FOX News for twenty-four years as an on-air expert in legal matters. He also offered his opinions (very conservative) on other issues. He was let go after one accusation of sexual assault led to others also coming forward. Two of those accusing him of sexual assault are men. One accused Napolitano of sexually abusing him while he presided over his case. The other accused him of inviting him to his home only to pressure him to participate in sexual roleplay. Napolitano countersued for libel. Both sides dismissed their cases at the same time with no public mention of any settlement.
C.J Covati was an attorney in Roanoke, Virginia and sometimes served as a substitute judge. He was also managing a strip club and it was there that he assaulted a dancer. He pleaded guilty to assault and battery.
Kenneth Lee was appointed by Donald Trump to the 9th Circuit. He was confirmed with a party line vote, in large part because of his extreme and intemperate writing about race, homosexuality, sexual harassment, and rape. He was dishonest with the Judiciary Committee, selectively holding back his controversial writing, an action that led to an Obama appointee not being confirmed. The Republicans looked past his dishonesty and confirmed him anyway.
Marcia Silva was a Republican and a family court judge who refused to allow a teen rapist be tried as an adult because she believed the twelve-year-old victim wasn’t seriously harmed other than losing her virginity, which the judge decided wasn’t particularly serious even though the girl was left bleeding. “Silva wrote in her August…
James Troiano, a Republican New Jersey family court judge, refused to allow a predatory sixteen-year-old rapist to be tried as an adult because he came from “a good family” and was accepted into a good school. Trying minors as adults is questionable practice, but the totality of this case is extraordinary. A sixteen-year-old boy was…
Steve Sword is a Tennessee Criminal Court judge appointed by Governor Bill Haslem, a Republican. Since his appointment, he was re-elected in 2012 and 2014 and he was unopposed in 2022. In 2019, he presided over a trial that ended in the conviction of David Lynn Richards Jr,. a former pastor, for repeatedly raping his adopted daughter.
James P. McClusky sentenced a school bus driver who confessed to raping a fourteen-year-old girl to probation, ten years probation, and designated him a Level 1 Sex Offender which meant he was not placed on the Sex Offender registry.
John Russo, Jr. was appointed Superior Court Judge by former New Jersey Chris Christie. A woman was seeking a restraining order against a the father of her child. She claimed he raped her, He also physically and verbally abused her, threatened to burn down her house, take away her child, and stole from her. The judge asked if she knew how to avoid getting raped.
Close your legs – his advice
He has been accused by several men of raping them when they were minors. In 2017, a man came forward suing Judge Pressler, claiming he was raped by Pressler when he was just fourteen and the sexual assaults continued for decades. As often happens, once one person comes forward, others find the courage to come forward as well. According to court records, he settled with another accuser in 2004. He was successful in getting the suit dismissed because of the statute of limitations, but his accuser appealed and won in the Texas Supreme Court in April, 2022.