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UTUSN

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Fri Jan 14, 2022, 02:02 PM Jan 2022

Jerks on the bench - "judge" shames cancer patient for overgrown yard - started with "Judge Judy"? [View all]

It takes just a minute or two watching a-holes on t.v. throwing their robes around to be totally repulsed at the arrogance. It's all up and down the judicial ladder from SCotUS on down through wingnut Federal judges blocking things like DACA or now vaxxes on through the t.v. "judges" and down to the municipal level.

If anybody is above the law - and many categories of privileged are - these arrogant a-holes are. The 30 seconds I ever saw of "Judge Judy" made me puke and have never looked at her again. Just clicking past the different ones throwing their arrogant tantrums is quite enough.

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https://nypost.com/2022/01/13/judge-fines-cancer-patient-72-too-weak-to-mow-lawn/

Judge fines cancer patient, 72, for overgrown lawn: ‘I’d give jail time if I could’

A hardline judge has fined and ridiculed a 72-year-old Michigan man with lymphoma, ruling that he “should be ashamed” of being too weak to mow his overgrown lawn.

Burhan Chowdhury of Hamtramck, a community about six miles north of Detroit, admittedly fell behind in yard maintenance after he was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes in 2019. His overgrown property prompted local officials to subpoena Chowdhury.

In now-viral footage of the Zoom court hearing on Jan. 10, Chowdhury’s breathing appeared labored as Judge Alexis G. Krot of the 31st District Court berated him.

“You should be ashamed of yourself,” says Krot, in a video shared Jan. 12 on social media, and viewed more than 37,500 times as of Thursday morning. “If I could give you jail time on this, I would.” ....

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