How Corrupt Is America's Judicial System?
Why Supreme Court Justices Serve For Life http://testu.be/1hmqqJv Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Almost 50% of Americans believe that the US judicial system is corrupt. So why are...
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In the early 2000s, two Pennsylvania judges sent thousands of children to a juvenile detention center, in exchange for financial kickbacks from detention center operators. This “kids for cash” scandal resulted in long prison sentences for the guilty parties, and raised the issue of judicial corruption. A recent watchdog report estimated that almost half of all Americans think the U.S. justice system is corrupt. It also approximated that over 2.5 million individual bribes are paid within the judicial system each year. So what’s going on? Why are America’s judges so corrupt? Judges occupy a particularly privileged status within the judicial branch. Although federal judges and supreme court justices have life-long terms, in many states, judges must still run ...
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In the early 2000s, two Pennsylvania judges sent thousands of children to a juvenile detention center, in exchange for financial kickbacks from detention center operators. This “kids for cash” scandal resulted in long prison sentences for the guilty parties, and raised the issue of judicial corruption. A recent watchdog report estimated that almost half of all Americans think the U.S. justice system is corrupt. It also approximated that over 2.5 million individual bribes are paid within the judicial system each year. So what’s going on? Why are America’s judges so corrupt? Judges occupy a particularly privileged status within the judicial branch. Although federal judges and supreme court justices have life-long terms, in many states, judges must still run ...
