James G. Donegan
Associate Judge Cook County, Illinois



Article VI, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, states, in pertinent part, that “all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution”.

It is not a judicial function for a judge to engage in acts that violate the U.S. Constitution, to war against the U.S. Constitution. He must support the Constitution.

The act of any judge to violate a person’s First, Third, Fifth and/or Fourteenth Amendment Rights, or Due Process Rights, or to permit such violation to occur, is an attack upon the Constitution, and is a crime.

Courts have consistently held that when a judge fails to support the Constitution, the judge is not acting in any judicial capacity, but is acting only in his/her personal capacity.  His/her orders are void, of no legal force or effect, and he/she has been deprived of any protection of the government. He/she is amenable to personal suit, as the judge does not have judicial immunity for acts in his/her personal capacity.

Further, he/she has engaged in acts to defraud the government by his/her acceptance of any benefits from the government, whether salary, office, pension, insurance, etc.

Why does Associate Judge James G. Donegan violate the law, and the Constitution of the United States?

Why does Judge James G. Donegan engage in acts in violation of due process? Under both Federal and Illinois law, "At a minimum, procedural due process requires notice, an opportunity to respond, and a meaningful opportunity to be heard."

Apparently, Judge James G. Donegan has not heard of Due Process Rights.

CLR submits that a judge has lost jurisdiction when a litigant's due process rights have been violated. The judge has evidenced his partiality when he deprives any litigant of the litigant's Constitutional due process rights and has violated the litigant's First Amendment Right to an impartial judge.

Under the Supreme Law of the Land, a judge has a duty to, and has no discretion not to, protect the Constitutional Rights of all parties before the Court. Upon the state courts, equally with Federal courts, rests the obligation to guard and enforce every right secured by the U.S. Constitution.

Further, should he continue to act without jurisdiction, then, under the Supreme Law of the Land, the judge is engaged in treason.



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Created October 14, 2005
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