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Utah Supreme Court Rules That Alleged Sexual Assault by a Doctor Is Not “Health Care”
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2024
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It's insane to me that judges can just make these stupid ass rulings that are obviously wrong and just never face any consequences. Like why hasn't that lower court judge been removed from his position for clearly making a biased ruling to protect a sexual abuser???
Immunity.
I suppose that literally answers my question. Lol
Yeah, it's almost impossible to remove a sitting judge. For federal judges, they have lifetime appointments and the only option to remove them is impeachment. Only 15 federal judges have been impeached, 8 being convicted in the US history. State judges are elected, and only 18 states have a recall process, which is lengthy and heavily stacked in the judge's favor. So the only reasonable way to remove them is to elect someone else, when their term ends.
And they have absolute immunity for all judicial actions.