Judicial Wrongs Need Solution
In Prince George’s County, Maryland, Judge Palumbo is facing the Judicial Disability Board, who
can censure or remove a Judge from the bench, for dismissing a protective order set in place to
shield Yvette Cade from her husband, Roger Hargrave, who three weeks later found her at her
job. He then commenced to dowse her in gasoline and set her on fire. Of course this incident
had been preceded by numerous phone calls to her and her family and friends, any of which
would have gotten him arrested had the protection order still been in place.
The Judge’s decision to dismiss the protection order after setting a hearing based on the
handwritten letter from Roger Hargrave pleading for it to be dropped so he and his wife could
attend counseling. At the hearing, however, Mr. Hargrave didn’t show up. Yvette Cade did, and
plead with the Judge to keep the restraining order in place. Her pleading was in vain and, after
being verbally harangued by the Judge, her views, her safety, and the protective order were all
dismissed.
This is not the only time Judge Palumbo has misused his position though this one could very well
have had deadly consequences. He has also berated other victims of domestic abuse from the
bench, caused a traffic accident and attempted to use his authority to intimidate the woman he
hit from calling the police, as well as using his position to get a ticket dropped when he was
speeding. These are not the actions of a man whose power is to decide the fate of those who
come before him, or at least they shouldn’t be.
Judge Palumbo is only one of the judges in this country that is more concerned with how being a
judge can serve them than how they can serve this country and its citizens. They can do
anything they want from the bench and the only thing that can change their rulings is the Court
of Appeals or the Supreme Court. Of course, these are simply more judges who may or may not
wish to overturn the rulings of their own kind.
The worst part of it is that they are not held accountable for their actions and they can’t be. If
they do, as Judge Palumbo did, and endanger someone’s life with an irresponsible ruling, the
victim can’t sue them or have them charged with a crime.
They can do as the federal judge did in California, and order a cross much loved by all the
citizens of the area, to be removed. I’m talking about the Soledad Cross in San Diego that the
people there wanted to keep and one judge didn’t. Of course, in that case once it finally made it
to the Supreme Court. There the case wasn’t decided in the favor of the citizens who want it to
remain but rather simply postponed for another ninety days. The people of the community have
spoken in that case and yet the Cross still hangs in the balance, all because one federal judge
didn’t agree with it.
Let’s not forget the judges that ordered the Ten Commandments removed from public display
and the ones who ordered that nativity scenes should also not be displayed on public property.
Who are these people that they feel they are above the law and can change it at their whim.
This is a country ‘for the people and by the people’ but that was never intended to mean
individual people but rather the multitudes. This is a democracy, or did they forget that.
Their job is to enforce the letter of the law, to control the lawyers and the shenanigans they
attempt to pull, and to decide on the veracity of the cases before them. No one asked them to
use their positions to alter the very lifestyle of America and to try to do our thinking for us.
Who agrees that something needs to be done to make them accountable for their actions?
Something more than simply removing them from the bench or censored or have their verdicts
overturned? Don’t you think that when they put someone’s life in danger they should be held
accountable for their actions the same as anyone else?
I mean, if you open the door and let a pistol packing lunatic in to an office building and he kills
everyone in there but you, then you can be charged with facilitation and/or sued. Don’t they
deserve to be held to the same standards?
I feel they do and feel we should ask our Congressmen and women to find the way, or make
one. As a woman who was once a battered woman myself I know the helpless feeling of fear that
permeates your very being when you know there’s no one that can truly protect you but the
threat of a protection order and can’t imagine the additional level of terror Yvette Cade must
have experienced when even that scant protection was removed. And as a Christian and an
American I feel both disgust and fear as I watch the liberal judges rip apart the very foundation
of our country because they don’t believe in God and don’t want to see reminders of our faith—
the very faith and God that this great nation was founded on.
I feel we have to find a way to stop them, for the women who might become their victims in the
future, for the children who could also be the prey, and for the freedom to be Americans that
they are trying to take away from us one step and one day at a time.
As Americans we can make a difference and we should try on this one. If we don’t join together
to stop them, no one will and eventually all that will be left of this once great nation will be the
memories of how it was.
© Melissa Hill 2007
In Prince George’s County, Maryland, Judge Palumbo is facing the Judicial Disability Board, who
can censure or remove a Judge from the bench, for dismissing a protective order set in place to
shield Yvette Cade from her husband, Roger Hargrave, who three weeks later found her at her
job. He then commenced to dowse her in gasoline and set her on fire. Of course this incident
had been preceded by numerous phone calls to her and her family and friends, any of which
would have gotten him arrested had the protection order still been in place.
The Judge’s decision to dismiss the protection order after setting a hearing based on the
handwritten letter from Roger Hargrave pleading for it to be dropped so he and his wife could
attend counseling. At the hearing, however, Mr. Hargrave didn’t show up. Yvette Cade did, and
plead with the Judge to keep the restraining order in place. Her pleading was in vain and, after
being verbally harangued by the Judge, her views, her safety, and the protective order were all
dismissed.
This is not the only time Judge Palumbo has misused his position though this one could very well
have had deadly consequences. He has also berated other victims of domestic abuse from the
bench, caused a traffic accident and attempted to use his authority to intimidate the woman he
hit from calling the police, as well as using his position to get a ticket dropped when he was
speeding. These are not the actions of a man whose power is to decide the fate of those who
come before him, or at least they shouldn’t be.
Judge Palumbo is only one of the judges in this country that is more concerned with how being a
judge can serve them than how they can serve this country and its citizens. They can do
anything they want from the bench and the only thing that can change their rulings is the Court
of Appeals or the Supreme Court. Of course, these are simply more judges who may or may not
wish to overturn the rulings of their own kind.
The worst part of it is that they are not held accountable for their actions and they can’t be. If
they do, as Judge Palumbo did, and endanger someone’s life with an irresponsible ruling, the
victim can’t sue them or have them charged with a crime.
They can do as the federal judge did in California, and order a cross much loved by all the
citizens of the area, to be removed. I’m talking about the Soledad Cross in San Diego that the
people there wanted to keep and one judge didn’t. Of course, in that case once it finally made it
to the Supreme Court. There the case wasn’t decided in the favor of the citizens who want it to
remain but rather simply postponed for another ninety days. The people of the community have
spoken in that case and yet the Cross still hangs in the balance, all because one federal judge
didn’t agree with it.
Let’s not forget the judges that ordered the Ten Commandments removed from public display
and the ones who ordered that nativity scenes should also not be displayed on public property.
Who are these people that they feel they are above the law and can change it at their whim.
This is a country ‘for the people and by the people’ but that was never intended to mean
individual people but rather the multitudes. This is a democracy, or did they forget that.
Their job is to enforce the letter of the law, to control the lawyers and the shenanigans they
attempt to pull, and to decide on the veracity of the cases before them. No one asked them to
use their positions to alter the very lifestyle of America and to try to do our thinking for us.
Who agrees that something needs to be done to make them accountable for their actions?
Something more than simply removing them from the bench or censored or have their verdicts
overturned? Don’t you think that when they put someone’s life in danger they should be held
accountable for their actions the same as anyone else?
I mean, if you open the door and let a pistol packing lunatic in to an office building and he kills
everyone in there but you, then you can be charged with facilitation and/or sued. Don’t they
deserve to be held to the same standards?
I feel they do and feel we should ask our Congressmen and women to find the way, or make
one. As a woman who was once a battered woman myself I know the helpless feeling of fear that
permeates your very being when you know there’s no one that can truly protect you but the
threat of a protection order and can’t imagine the additional level of terror Yvette Cade must
have experienced when even that scant protection was removed. And as a Christian and an
American I feel both disgust and fear as I watch the liberal judges rip apart the very foundation
of our country because they don’t believe in God and don’t want to see reminders of our faith—
the very faith and God that this great nation was founded on.
I feel we have to find a way to stop them, for the women who might become their victims in the
future, for the children who could also be the prey, and for the freedom to be Americans that
they are trying to take away from us one step and one day at a time.
As Americans we can make a difference and we should try on this one. If we don’t join together
to stop them, no one will and eventually all that will be left of this once great nation will be the
memories of how it was.
© Melissa Hill 2007
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