When I founded Judicial Watch on July 29, 1994, and even after that, with my current “People’s Justice Department,” Freedom Watch (www.freedomwatchusa.org) I never thought that the nation would sink to the low ethical, moral, irreligious, and lawless level that we now find ourselves confronting. And, while I am a perpetual optimist — I do what I do because I believe that we can be much better — I am disgusted by not just by our compromised, cowardly, and mostly corrupt political elite in Washington, D.C., and in state capitals, but also our legal system. Without a functioning, neutral, and honest judiciary at both the federal and state levels, We the People, short of having to wage another revolution, are left defenseless.
Most conservatives believe that this third branch of government, the judiciary, was intended by our Founding Fathers to be the weakest of the three branches, subservient to the executive and legislative branches. I am not one of those! Although on behalf of my clients and the public interest, I have had to regrettably fight with many of them over the last 40 years since I became a member of the legal bar, judges in my opinion are, in principle, our most important public servants as they were intended to protect us from the tyranny of government and also ourselves. But this is not how it turned out, however well intended were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin and their fellow patriots.