Judges should interpret laws according to the Constitution of United States and Commonwealth of Kentucky regardless of the political situations. Unfortunately, Judges make decisions based on his or her personal political point of views. In these cases, judges no longer act as referees. For these reasons, a Judicial Citizens Review Board to oversee these judges is a necessity. (Ex. Read Page 23 of a court document)
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Kentucky Judicial Accountability and Integrity Amendment
(a). Preamble. The people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky find that complaints for willful misconduct have been lodged with the Kentucky Judicial Qualifications Commission involving state judges without fair review or just result. Due to conflicts of interest of judges judging themselves, judicial integrity, of major importance, which affects all areas of our state, is severely compromised. We, the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky would like to create a Judicial Citizens Review Board which no lawyers will be allowed to be a member of the board. Be it therefore resolved that the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky hereby enact the following amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky which shall be known by the short title as the ¡°Commonwealth of Kentucky Judicial Accountability and Integrity Amendment.¡±
(b). Definitions. For purposes of this amendment:
1. The term ¡°state judge¡± or ¡°judge¡± shall mean any state supreme court justice, appellate court judge, supreme court clerk or deputy clerk, supreme court or appellate court law clerk or referee, district court judge, special judge, district court clerk or deputy clerk, circuit court judge or clerk of the circuit court, county /municipal judge, county/municipal court clerk or deputy clerk, administrative law judge, or any who acts in a capacity of officer of the court whether as an elected or appointed official. The term judge shall include all who can make a determination against any citizen in violation of the Bill of Rights, constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the commonwealth of Kentucky.
2. The term ¡°Juror¡± shall mean a juror for the Special Grand Jury for Kentucky.
3. The use of the word ¡°Constitution¡± or any derivative of the word ¡°Constitution¡± shall mean the Constitution of the United States of America unless otherwise specified.
4. Acts which may result in actions include bad behavior as set forth by paragraph (c) or a criminal conviction. Where appropriate, the singular shall include the plural, and plural the singular.
(d). Precedent being the historic method of judicial decision making and well regarded as a bulwark of judicial independence, courts must abide by former precedents not contrary to common law. Declaration of law is authoritative to the extent necessary for courts¡¯ decisions and should be applied in subsequent cases to similarly situated parties unless published as a new precedent. Superior courts including the Kentucky Supreme Court shall not avoid the precedential effect of prior decisions by ruling and determining on a ¡°not for publication¡± basis. Appellate records including the records of certiorari review shall include the clerk's work product, the clerk's summary, and the clerk's recommendation. No records material to the decision of an appellate judge, tribunal or supreme court justice shall be excluded from the public record unless the record is sealed; in which case, the public, appellant and appellee shall have access to the full record. No appellate or supreme court decision shall be valid unless signed, wet signature, and dated. By signing a memorandum of opinion, a judge of any Kentucky Circuit Court or Kentucky Court of Appeals or a Kentucky Supreme Court judge is verifying under penalty of perjury that they have read all materials pertinent to the appeal and certifies that their decision is in harmony with the controlling authorities of Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. An unpublished decision by a Kentucky superior court which reverses or modifies a prior precedent shall be void on its face, shall not be enforceable, and shall be regarded as blocking meaningful access to court.
(e). Oaths. Every judge shall take the required oaths before each assignment whether for a specified term or as a visiting or temporary judge. A written copy of the Oath must be on file, upon demand given to the requesting party, and available for inspection at every place of service that the judge shall sit as judge. The Oath of Office will be an original wet signature in blue ink. The oath shall include an oath in understanding that neither the President of The United States, nor Congress, nor any governor, nor any legislature, or any other governing body has lawful power or authority to subject non-military citizens of United States to a military court.
(f). Repeated reversals on appeal: The third time a judge is reversed on appeal where the cause for reversal is not an issue of first impression shall be grounds for removal from office. A Judge¡¯s only defense for removal for repeated reversals on appeal shall be fraud on the court.
(g). The right of the people to use writs of quo warranto, prohibition, mandamus, and habeas corpus shall not be infringed under any circumstances. (will need to change section The Kentucky Supreme Court shall have exclusive and original jurisdiction over all writs of quo warranto, prohibition, mandamus, and habeas corpus save for writs of quo warranto filed against Kentucky Supreme Court justices/judges. No record material to the determination of a writ of quo warranto, prohibition, mandamus, or habeas corpus shall be secret unless the records are ordered sealed for cause by the Kentucky Supreme Court in which case both the petitioner, the respondent, and any party materially affected by the writ shall be privileged to obtain all records. Writs of quo warranto shall be available to all citizens to compel the revocation of the charters of municipal corporations shown to have violated the Constitutionally Protected Rights of the complaining Citizen. In all reviews of all writs, the Kentucky Supreme Court shall be required to render a written opinion clearly delineating the reason for granting or denying the writ, although the Supreme Court shall have the power to summarily deny repeated writs filed by the same Citizen on the same subject matter; and also, the Supreme Court shall be empowered to sanction for repeated filings.
(h). All prior grants of jurisdiction to the federal government in whatsoever name shall be revoked. Where the United States of America or any agency of the United States of America or through any derivative name for either as a party shall proceed in the appropriate state venue and must plead federal law in harmony with state law. Prior grants of federal jurisdiction shall be recast to include only controversies involving federal questions and diversity actions litigated between private citizens. In matters where the federal government and whatever name shall proceed against any party in a state court action pled in harmony with state law for a criminal violation, the federal government is required to prosecute in the name of injured parties.
(i). The right of the people to bring suits for malum in se offenses shall not be abridged under any circumstances. Any party aggrieved by the county district attorney or any succeeding public officers refusal to prosecute a criminal complaint is empowered to bring a complaint of a misdemeanor based on their own information indictment. Any Citizen shall be empowered to present a bill of particulars before a grand jury for the grand jury's determination of whether a bill of indictment shall be returned. Citizens are not required to exhaust other remedies prior to bringing an action for a misdemeanor or prior to presentment of a bill of particulars to a grand jury. In all actions for redress, for malum in se offenses initiated by a Citizen, the Citizen in name shall be the party plaintiff. In any action brought in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky or any derivative thereof, whether civil or criminal, the action shall be brought in United States Supreme Court in accordance with Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution. United States Supreme Court's refusal to adjudicate a claim brought in the name of the state shall not be a bar to the aggrieved party bringing the action in their own name in the appropriate Commonwealth of Kentucky venue.
(j). Both grand and petite jurors shall be fully informed, meaning the jury is to be instructed that the jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the facts in controversy. In all jury proceedings, prior to their deliberations, the jurors shall be presented with all applicable statutes as well as all common law holdings refining the meaning of the statutes. A determination by a jury shall not have precedential effect. None of the proceedings of a grand jury shall be secret save for how a grand juror has voted and the names of the grand jurors asking questions and making comments.
(k). Neither a judgment rendered by a court nor a fine imposed by a court shall survive bankruptcy. A Citizen's primary residence and all the contents therein as well as any material object which can be described as a ¡°tool of the trade¡± used to generate income, shall be unalienable save for purchase money. For this section the definition of judgment does not include the result of a petition or a motion to vacate/set aside or void a judgment.
(l). Once a dispositive motion/petition, motion/petition for summary judgment, motion/petittion for declaratory judgment, or motion/petition for judgment by default becomes right for a determination in circuit/county /district court or administrative hearing, meaning of the opposing party has had notice and opportunity and the answer time has run, if there is no answer, the court is deprived of jurisdiction to take any act but ratification of the motion/petition. If any of the motions/petitions articulated above is answered the court shall rule within ninety days. Once a judgment is orally pronounced, the court shall memorialize the judgment and file an order within thirty days or the court loses subject matter jurisdiction to memorialize the order. Breach of the conditions of this section shall deprive the judge of twenty-five percent of the judge¡¯s salary for the respective calendar year.
(m). All proceedings of all appellate courts, circuit/district and county/municipal courts shall be audio and video recorded in duplicate with one recording to be retained in the venue and one copy forwarded to the state archive. No records material to any county/municipal court or circuit/district court shall be withheld from a proper party to the action at no cost. (consider that it is a public record for all) All employees who work in the court house should extend the same services to the attorneys as to any citizens in the commonwealth of Kentucky. Currently, when a citizen ask a clerk where to get a stamp or get a form to file is considered ¡°a legal advice.¡± These kinds of discrimination need to stop immediately. Any citizen should have the same service as an attorney. Any government employee who willful violate his or her oath of office, should be remove from office immediately and forfeit all pensions and retirements.
(n). SELECTION OF CIRCUIT/DISTRICT COURT JUDGES: Our constitution does not require judges must be lawyers. Lawyers are specialized in certain field just like a medical doctor. No one would ask a family doctor to perform a heart bypass. The same is true we should not ask a tax attorney to be a criminal defense lawyer. But we have seen this in our courtrooms everyday-a defense attorney who are not specialized in criminal law defense on a criminal case. A non lawyer judge must obtain an equivalent education as a J.D. (a minimum of 90 semester graduate school hours is required. This is the same education as a J.D. degree) A non lawyer judge can read just as well or sometimes better than a lawyer judge. In our courtrooms across our country, many lawyers have made many bad decisions. These decisions do not support by our constitution. These judges act as they are kings and queen. They made laws on the benches bypass the legislature and executive branch. The people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky must correct these mistakes. We do not have kings and queens in our country. Judges who make laws on the bench without the support of our constitution must be removed from the bench and have the Judicial Citizens Review Board to review the case. If the citizens review board found the judge have violated his or her oath of office, the Judicial Citizens Review Board should order the convicted judge to have his or her license revoke and declare that the judge is a traitor of the American people according to United States Constitution Amendment 14 section 3 and 4 his or her retirement and pension removed permanently. Selection of circuit/district court judges for Kentucky circuit/district courts shall be by lottery. When a position is to be filled for the next successive term, all who are interested in serving as circuit/district court judge or any succeeding judicial office of equal standing, shall be eligible to apply without regard to what education, training, background, membership in any organization, or any other factors, not having attained the age of majority, conviction of felony crime of violence against other person, or breach of duty while in public service. All applying shall be required to take a competency test based on Kentucky court procedures. The test shall be conducted ¡°double-blind¡± and shall consist of an objective test of not less than five hundred questions. All applicants shall be given the same test; however, questions shall be arranged in ten different patterns. Applicants must score in the ninety-five percentile or higher on the test. Applicants failing to achieve the ninety-five percentile on the first test may test a second time but are required to score one-hundred percent on the second test. No third test shall be given any applicant for the respective judicial position. All passing applicants shall have their name placed in a capsule of equal size, color, weight, and dimensions. All capsules shall be placed in a hopper, and after no less than twelve turns, a drawing shall determine whom the circuit/ district judge or judges shall be. The selection of circuit/district judges shall be repeated for each term, Interim and absentee appointments: Where a judge is unable to complete the term of service for reasons of incapacity, the governor of Kentucky shall be empowered to appoint a pro tem judge without legislative approval. For vacancies where no applicant qualifies, the governor shall be empowered to appoint judges to serve the full term subject to fifty-one percent approval by the Kentucky Legislature house and senate. The term of office for a Kentucky circuit/district judge or any succeeding judicial office shall be six years. No extraordinary benefits shall be provided the circuit/district court judge other than afforded other employees of the state of Kentucky.
(o). All judges of Kentucky circuit/district courts, including special judges, appellate court judges, workers compensation court judges, Supreme Court justices/judges, and all others serving in any judicial, quasi judicial capacity, or administrative law capacity shall resign their membership in all non-religious organizations including but not limited to all bar associations during their term of service.
(p). Judges shall, as an addendum to their oaths of office, disclose all ownership in any businesses, whether stock ownership or incidents of ownership in a closely held corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship. The judge shall be required to update the ownership disclosure within thirty days of a change.
(q). It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person or organization to use deception or coercion in an attempt to compel contracting for legal representation.
(r). It shall be unlawful and a third degree felony for any judge or government official to use threat of imprisonment to compel contracting for legal representation.
(s). Special Kentucky Grand Jury. There is hereby created within the Commonwealth of Kentucky a twenty-three member special grand jury for the Commonwealth of Kentucky with full state geographical jurisdiction having power to judge on both law and fact. Hereinafter the Special Grand Jury for the commonwealth of Kentucky shall be referred to as ¡°the Special Grand Jury.¡± The Special Grand Jury¡¯s responsibility shall be limited to determining, on an objective standard, whether a civil suit against a state judge would be frivolous and harassing, or fall within the exclusions of immunity as set forth herein, and whether there is probable cause of criminal conduct by the state judge complained of.
(t). Counsel. The Special Grand Jury shall have exclusive power to retain non-governmental advisers, special prosecutors, and investigators, as needed, who shall serve no longer than two years, after which term said officers shall be ineligible. However, with permission of the Special Grand Jury, a special prosecutor may prosecute their current cases through all appeals and any applicable complaints to the Special Grand Jury. Special prosecutors shall not retain bar membership during their term of service to the special grand jury.
(u). Filing Fees. Attorneys representing a client filing a civil complaint or answer before the Special Grand Jury, shall at the time of filing pay a fee equal to the filing fee due in a civil appeal to the Kentucky State Supreme Court. Individuals filing a civil complaint or answer before the Special Grand Jury on their own behalf as a matter of right, shall, at the time of filing, post of fee of one hundred dollars, or file a declaration, which shall remain confidential, stating they are impoverished and unable to pay such fee.
(v). Should the Special Grand Jury lacks sufficient funding through fines, fees, and forfeitures, the Kentucky Legislature shall appropriate all the necessary funds for the implementation and maintenance of the Special Grand Jury first utilizing surpluses as articulated as off budget items in the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
(w). There shall be created a state office which shall be called ¡°Clerk and Treasurer¡± for the Special Grand Jury for Kentucky whose responsibility shall be to maintain records and deposits. The Clerk and Treasurer shall have discretion to establish the site where the Special Grand Jury shall meet. All meetings of the Special Grand Jury shall fall under the state of Kentucky open meetings act. The governor of Kentucky shall be empowered to appoint the initial Clerk and Treasurer for the Special Grand Jury, thereafter, the Clerk and Treasurer shall be a position attainable by regular election by the people of the state of Kentucky. The Clerk and Treasurer shall be elected every four years by the citizens of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
(x). Compensation. Each Juror shall receive a salary commensurate to seventy-five percent of a state district court judge prorated according to the number of days actually served. All Jurors must have earned a bachelor degree from an accredit American higher education institution in order to give a fair trial to the accused and the victim¡¯s family. The Clerk and Treasurer shall be compensated with a salary commensurate to a state judge. No other compensation or benefits shall be available to Jurors by virtue of serving on the Special Grand Jury.
(y). Annual Budget. The Clerk and Treasurer shall be responsible to maintain an annual budget and submit the next year¡¯s annual budget to the Kentucky Legislature's Appropriations Committee.
(z). Selection of Jurors. The Jurors shall serve without compulsion and shall be drawn by public lottery by the Clerk and Treasurer of the Special Grand Jury from names of citizens submitting their names to the Clerk and Treasurer for such drawing.(aa). Service of Jurors. Excluding the establishment of the initial Special Grand Jury, each Juror shall serve one year. No Juror shall serve more than once within a five-year period. On the first day of each month, two persons shall be rotated off the Special Grand Jury and new Citizens seated, except in January it shall be three. Vacancies shall be filled on the first of the following month in addition to the Jurors regularly rotated, and the Juror chosen to fill a vacancy shall complete only the remainder of the term of the Juror replaced. A majority of twelve shall determine any matter. Special State Grand Jury proceedings files shall always remain a public record following final determination.
(bb). Procedures. The Special Grand Jury shall serve a copy of the filed complaint upon the subject judge and a notice to the complainant of such service. The judge shall have thirty days to serve and file an answer. The complainant shall have twenty days to reply to the judge¡¯s answer. (Upon timely request, the Special Grand Jury may provide for extensions for good cause.) The Special Grand Jury shall have power to subpoena witnesses, documents, and other tangible evidence, and to examine witnesses under oath. The Special Grand Jury shall determine the causes properly before it with their reasoned findings in writing within one hundred twenty (120) calendar days, serving on all parties their decision on whether immunity shall be barred as a defense to any civil action that may thereafter be pursued against the state judge. A rehearing may be requested of the Special Grand Jury within twenty days with service upon the opposition. Twenty days shall be allowed to reply thereto. Thereafter, the Special Grand Jury shall render final determination within thirty days. All allegations of the complaint shall be liberally construed in favor of the complainant. The Jurors shall keep in mind, in making their decisions, that they are entrusted by the people of Kentucky with the duty of restoring a perception of justice and accountability of the state judiciary, and are not to be swayed by artful presentation by the state judge. They shall avoid all influence by judicial and government entities. The tolling of time for the statute of limitations on any civil suit brought pursuant to this amendment/statute against a state judge shall not commence until the rendering of a final decision by the Special Grand Jury. The final decision of the Special Grand Jury cannot be appealed; however, either party may seek certiorari review before the Kentucky Supreme Court.
(cc). Jurisdiction. The Special Grand Jury shall have exclusive power to establish rules assuring juror¡¯s attendance, to provide internal discipline, replace members who resign or die, and to remove any of its members on grounds of misconduct. The Clerk and Treasurer of the Special Grand Jury shall immediately assign a docket number to each complaint brought before it.
(dd). Qualifications of Jurors. Our society is getting into a high tech era and our jurors also need to be well informed to keep up with the new technology. A part of a fair trial is have a well knowledge and informed jurors. The are many cases in United States, (example O. J. Simson¡¯s case) the defense attorneys to use the chemistry terms RNA, DNA and many technical terms that jurors that most of the juror do not understand how that work. As the result, many case our judicial system is broken. Most of the American believe our judicial system is broken and we the people need to fix it. A Juror shall be an American citizen who have attained the age of twenty-five years and have earned a bachelor degree from an American accredit higher education institutions, (many internet institution may not qualified) and have been two years domiciled in Kentucky (a Citizen of the Commonwealth of Kentucky). Those not eligible for special grand jury service shall include elected and appointed officials, members of the Kentucky Bar, judges (active or retired), judicial, prosecutorial, and all law enforcement personnel borh state and federal without other exclusion except previous adjudication of mental incapacity or imprisonment or parole from conviction of a felonious crime against people.
(ee). Public Indemnification. No state judge complained of, or sued civilly by a complainant pursuant to this amendment/statute shall be defended at public expense or by any elected or appointed public counsel, nor shall any state judge be reimbursed from public funds for any losses sustained under this amendment/statute.
(ff). Redress. The provisions of this amendment/statute or in addition to other forms of redress that may exist and are not mutually exclusive.
(gg). Any provision of the Kentucky Judicial Accountability Integrity Legislation/Amendment which is in conflict with the existing Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall preempt the prior provision. The Jurors shall by oath or affirmation to uphold the Constitution of United States of America and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky as amended by this amendment.
(hh). Removal. Whenever any state judge shall have been determined to have behaved badly, not limited to paragraph (c), the Special Grand Jury shall be empowered to remove the state judge from office. The state judge may also be held liable under any other appropriate criminal or civil proceeding.
(ii). Indictment. Should the Special Grand Jury also find pro bowl cause of criminal conduct on the part of any state judge against whom a complaint is docketed, it shall have the power to indict such state judge. The Special Grand Jury shall refer indicted state judges to appropriate authority for prosecution or shall by unanimous consent invoke powers of the special prosecutor.
(jj). Not excluding any provision and the Kentucky Judicial Accountability and Integrity Legislation/Amendment which may be to the contrary, all rules otherwise pertaining to grand juries in Kentucky shall apply.
(kk). Any violation of any article of this Kentucky Judicial Accountability Integrity Amendment, not limited to section (c), shall empower Citizens to seek removal of the judge through quo warranto. Where quo warranto is brought against any Kentucky Supreme Court Justice/Judge, the writ shall be heard by the Special Grand Jury with plenary authority. Inaction by the Special Grand Jury, or the fact that the Special Grand Jury, and finds for the judge shall not bar a private Citizen¡¯s right to quo warranto.
(ll) SELECTION OF JUDICIAL CITIZENS REVIEW BOARD: The Board members shall be elected from the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Each board member shall serve no more than twice on a four year term. Compensation for each Board member shall receive a salary and benefits same as a first year state Court of Appeals judge. (Maximum term for each board member is eight years with no possibility to be re-elect after the 8 years. The initial members may be appointed by the governor with a two year and four year term For the purpose of election maximum numbers of board members can be replace in any election is 50% so that the board will not start totally new on every election.) Selection of members of Judicial Citizens Review Board for Kentucky to oversee Kentucky circuit/district courts judges, prosecutors and lawyers for legal mal-practices. (Currently, if a lawyer committed a legal mal-practice, No lawyer is willing to take the case. In general, lawyers do not want to sue their own. Justices are not been served when a lawyers is committed legal mal-practices. Also the statute of limitation to file all mal-practice should be the same in all professions. Attorneys should not enjoy special treatment that other professions do not. Statue of limitation on medical mal-practice could be as long as 18 years for a minor and legal mal-practice is only for one year. (This is clearly a conflict of interest when a lawyer working as a double agent- working in the legislate bench and the judicial bench.) make their own laws.) Lawyers should extend to the same as the medical doctors have several reasons: First: It is difficult to find an attorney willing to sue its own. Second: a poor person may need time to save enough money to hire a willing attorney. Third: There is no justice for the poor and the government knows about it. ) With the Judicial Citizens Review Board watching over the legal profession, that no one will become the self appointed kings or queens. These members shall be by lottery so that no one knows who is sitting on the board. The board shall not be any lawyers or judges to avoid conflict of interest. The members should obtain a minimum of 90 graduate semester hour with a bachelor degree from an accredit American higher education institution. This is to insure that the accused judge have a fair trial. Judge by his or her peer- the same amount of education. The board should have 50 members to choose from. This will make up four review boards and two extras incase some board members who are sick and have emergency, to hear all the complaints form the citizens from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Twelve Board members and a judge shall be chosen by lottery to sit on a hearing to decide the case a day before or the same day of the hearing to insure the integrity of the hearing to be without any personal favoritism. The judge is not a member of the board. The 12 board members acts as a jury and the judge is the referee. The judge is there just incase there is a tie. The 12 members will render their independent decision. Incase a tie, then the judge¡®s vote becomes the tie breaker¡¯s vote. Once the hearing begins with a judge, the same board members should finish the entire hearing regardless the election is up. The newly elected member will be sitting on the pool for the next case. On a medical malpractice case, a medical doctor should not be sitting on a jury box or acting as a referee to make judgment on his own profession. The same is true for a legal malpractice or in a case of a judge is facing disciplinary action. In both cases, the Judicial Citizens Review Board should be the overseer.
(mm) All lawyers are consider officers of the court under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Attorneys belong to the judicial bench to interpret the law. There is a major conflict of law when an attorney work in the legislature bench making laws to profit themselves and interpret the law in the court house the next day. A major conflicts of interest. This practice has robbed the citizens of the Commonwealth of Kentucky ten of billions of dollars. This practice must be stop. If an attorney wants to serve as a public servant in a legislative or executive bench, the attorney must give up his or her license to practice law during the time the attorney is serving on the legislative or executive bench. The attorney must also not practice law for three years after he leaves his or her office for three years. This practice to insure the integrity of the laws which the attorney he just pass that he will not profit immediately.
We the people of Kentucky will watch closely to see which representatives are for the people and which are not.
MISSION STATEMENT
More often than not judges believe they can do what they want to do regardless of the law. Kentucky state Citizens, and others, will never get any favor in the courts if we allow this to continue to happen. Our God given unalienable rights secured by the Constitution for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and otherwise, are supposed to be upheld in the courts; and when they are not we must address this problem. The judges need to learn that we are a nation of laws and they will obey them and the Constitution(s) or they will be held accountable.
Notes
This amendment is 39 sections long. The Short of it is this. It defines judge¡¯s misconduct and what can be brought to bear upon an offending judge. It creates a Special Grand jury that hears these cases of judicial misconduct and does go against any federal judge with a bar license within the physical boundaries of the commonwealth. We may need to look at the reach into other states when judges are ruling against state citizens in federal court. Three times and a judge is out. This amendment allows judges to 1. test for a judgeship, 2. their name is drawn from a lottery type drawing. Their term of office is six years. The office of judge is open to all citizens that wish to apply and past the test. It does not address the issue of succeeding ones self but the position must be open again and you must submit you name again for the judge position. Unfulfilled terms are appointed by the governor, with approval from both houses. The jurors are to be instructed to judge the law and the facts. The Special Grand jury cases are to be open meeting and attended to the business of the judges and administrators that are violation the law and Constitution. Judges must surrender their bar license while on the bench. The same is for any other attorney in the judicial system. This amendment is born out of some awful tragic conflicts with the court system and judges not obeying their oath of office. I see this as away to take some of the corrupt power from the bar. They are here amongst us in violation of the Constitution. This amendment also addresses the problem of sealed judgments, especially when they change the course of law and only lawyers or judges are privy to theses cases. If sealed the Plaintiff and defendant have access to all notes writings and research to render the decision. Decisions have to be in wet ink signature and the judge is acknowledging that he has read all of the pleading and must be very specific as to why he is ruling the way he is. It does not keep the judge from throwing the case out by a technicality but it does make it tougher. Reversals on appeals will get a judge removed it revokes federal jurisdiction.