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Blog Entries by Judge H. Lee Sarokin from 05/2012

Your Vote Will Be Counted But It Will Not Count

| Posted 05.04.2012

After the election those votes which we so freely give will not mean as much as those that have been bought. The corporations, the PACs, the special interest groups that dominate the elections will be heard and the voice of the voter ignored and forgotten.

Critics Claim President Lincoln Guilty of Political Pandering in Emancipation Proclamation

| Posted 05.16.2012

Today President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing 3 million slaves. Critics of the President were quick to condemn his action. The town crier shouted that that this was further evidence of the President's war on families.

No White, Republican, Heterosexual, Church-Going, Male Prosecutor is Qualified for a Judgeship in Virginia

| Posted 05.17.2012

Virginia's Republican-controlled House rejected the judicial nomination of a gay Richmond prosecutor on the grounds that his past "indicated that he would press an activist agenda from the bench."

Republicans Are Using the Democratic Process to Curtail Democracy

| Posted 05.22.2012

The fraud that actually exists is not in voter identification but rather in the alleged justification for legislation that requires it. There is no epidemic of voters misrepresenting their identity at the polls.

Why Do Innocent People Plead Guilty?

| Posted 05.29.2012

Roughly 20 percent of those that have been exonerated confessed to the crimes with which they were charged. Most involved persons who had actually gone to trial, but we have no way of knowing how many entered guilty pleas through bargains and never appealed as a result.