There is no greater indictment of judges than the fact that honest people are afraid to go into court, while criminals swagger out its revolving doors. -- Thomas Sowell

The judiciary has routinely thwarted President Trump’s agenda. 

Although this is significant, it does not have the dramatic impact of the courts’ treatment of violent criminals.

Lenient policies undermine deterrence. 

When violent criminals receive light sentences, a message is sent that criminals do not have to fear the consequences of their actions.  They often commit more serious crimes in order to test the system.  Lenient sentences issued by judges are not based on incompetence.  These judges are not naive.  They are not compassionate.  They are not indifferent.  They are driven by an ideology.

That ideology includes prison reform, "restorative justice," and reparatory justice: theories that advocate for lesser or no punishment for serious crimes. 

It was an ideology popularized in Russia during the 19th century by people like Mikhail Bakunin: “The brigand is the true and only revolutionary in Russia.” 

David Horowitz claimed that Fay Stender founded the prison movement that contended, "There are no criminals, only political prisoners.” 

This ideology has infiltrated the law schools. 

Professor Regina Austin from the University of Pennsylvania law asserted that the black community should embrace criminals in its midst as a form of resistance to white oppression.  They should embrace them even though they are their primary victims. 

Twelve years of the Obama and Biden administrations have filled the judiciary with a large number of progressive justices.

Some sentences are so incredibly light they cannot conceal the revolutionary motives of these judges. 

Cook County Judge Steven Bernstein sentenced a 17-year-old drug dealer to probation for fatally stabbing a 15-year-old boy stating, “You’re a bright kid with a bright future.” 

A man smashed a 3-year-old's face.  His social worker told police the man was nonverbal and autistic.  He was released on a $375 bond. 

Judge Rosanne Rosado released a man with 57 prior arrests who pleaded guilty in a random pipe attack causing severe injuries.  He got no prison time. 

An immigrant in Minnesota was freed of a plea deal after kidnapping and raping a woman.  He repeatedly raped another woman, just months after dodging prison time for two prior rape convictions. 

Salt Lake County Judge Douglas Hogan sentenced Richard Mbaye Djassera, 26, Dodjim Leclair, 29, and Nasouh Albasis-Albasis, 24, to 48 months of probation, after all three pleaded guilty in the 2017 rape of a 14-year-old girl and the videotaping of the ordeal.  Mohamed Bakari Shei got only 180 days in prison for raping girls aged 4 and 9. 

Mohammed Izeddin broke into a New York home and raped a woman at knifepoint.  He was released without bail.  These are only a small fraction of the cases revealing the progressive ideology.

One technique frequently used to protect this “revolutionary vanguard” is the use of the insanity defense.  There are countless examples of murderers and rapists who have never served jail time due to this defense.  One of the most recent examples is Decarlos Brown Jr. the murderer of Iryna Zarutska. Brown is a diagnosed schizophrenic.  He was free on cashless bail. 

Lawrence Reed with 72 prior arrests was released with an electronic ankle monitor after knocking a social worker out cold at a psychiatric hospital. Prosecutors asked Reed to remain locked up, but a judge overruled them. Judge Molina-Gonzalez responded: “I can’t keep everybody in jail because the state’s attorney wants me to.”  Two months later Reed yelled, “Burn alive, bitch!” as he doused Bethany MaGee with gasoline and set her alight on Chicago’s L train. 

These criminally insane people are never so insane that they attack someone who might retaliate.  

Many of these mentally ill criminals experience remarkable recoveries.

Tyree Smith was given conditional release after a 2011 murder in which he ate his victim's brain and eye.  Forensic psychiatrist Caren Teitelbaum stated, “He is a joy.” 

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier commented, "Across the country, we see violent criminals getting to walk free, back into society, because of insanity defenses.”

While their compassion can know no bounds they are also capable of being heartless. 

In August 2021, Pam Hemphill was arrested for demonstrating inside the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6 “uprising.”  The 69-year-old grandmother and cancer patient pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve 60 days in a correctional institution, along with owing $500 in damages. 

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts does not see a double standard. 

He told FOX, "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.  What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.” 

This does not add to the credibility of the Supreme Court.

John Dietrich is a freelance writer and the author of The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy (Algora Publishing).  He has a Master of Arts Degree in International Relations from St. Mary’s University.  He is retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.  He is featured on the BBC's program "Things We Forgot to Remember:" Morgenthau Plan and Post-War Germany.