NJ judge accused of imposing Sharia law on Family Court

[Jeebus]

There also isn't anything in your link about the judge admonishing anyone.

Judge Martin continued:

"If I were a Muslim, I'd find it offensive. But you have that right, but you're way outside your boundaries or first amendment rights. This is what, and I said I spent about 7 and a half years living in other countries. when we go to other countries it's not uncommon for people to refer to us as ugly Americans this is why we are referred to as ugly Americans, because we are so concerned about our own rights we don't care about other people's rights as long as we get our say but we don't care about the other people's say."

Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, wrote that wherever Martin's religious leanings may fall, the greater issue is that "his legal views seem grotesquely out of place."

"There are legitimate uses of the culture defense. However, when it comes to free speech, that is not just our controlling constitutional right but the touchstone of our culture," Turley wrote. "... I view this as an extremely troubling case that raises serious questions of judicial temperament, if not misconduct."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1304764.html

[SomeIdiot]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1304764.html

Well then I disagree with his sentiments, though it doesn't look like it had any impact on the ruling.

[demopublican]

I have read claims that his $8k a month alimony payment exceeds his earnings.

If so, how would that make sense regardless of the judge's religious views?

He can't pay so he goes to jail and he woman gets nothing.

[Jeebus]

He can't pay so he goes to jail and he woman gets nothing.

Debtor's prisons in the USA (supposedly) disappeared a long time ago.

Though it is technically no longer legal to jail people for failure to pay their debts, the debt-collection industry has figured out how to game the courts to create a series of jail-able offenses related to nonpayment. These are largely legal tricks by which debt-collectors get court orders regarding debtors with which the debtors find difficult to comply, resulting in jail for violation of the court order, often over trifling sums.

According to the ACLU: "The sad truth is that debtors' prisons are flourishing today, more than two decades after the Supreme Court prohibited imprisoning those who are too poor to pay their legal debts. In this era of shrinking budgets, state and local governments have turned aggressively to using the threat and reality of imprisonment to squeeze revenue out of the poorest defendants who appear in their courts."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/jailed...--prisons.html

[Phineas Finn]

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/viewa...sectionstories



According to this article, the judge was born in New Jersey but lived in Egypt and Saudi Arabia between ages 8 and 15.

I hope he never wants to be President.