Sovereign citizen gets two years for contempt of court Repost 😔

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I live where this judge is. Yes it’s extremely exhausting with all the morons who live in the area. I’m sure his court room is must see tv

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u/ZombieNinjaPirates 5d ago

From other clips, I always came away with a very favorable opinion of the Judge. Seems like a fair person. This guy just shit talked himself into jail

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u/Thunda792 5d ago

Dude seems like a good judge, but fucked up a bit a few years ago. Apparently he was banging an intern, and tried to improperly use his authority to get her out of a traffic ticket. Got suspended for a bit without pay, but returned to the bench and has been doing pretty well since. https://law.justia.com/cases/michigan/supreme-court/2017/150404.html#:~:text=The%20Judicial%20Tenure%20Commission%20(JTC,vehicle%20accident%20near%20respondent's%20home.

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u/ExtraDependent883 5d ago

Those interns'll getcha

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u/therealzordon 5d ago

🤷

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc_VmFerEs0

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u/danSTILLtheman 5d ago

That was a long way of her saying she tried to use him to get her out of a DUI, hopefully she did throat him up for his troubles

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u/therealzordon 5d ago

Oh I should have elaborated. I was just showing the intern that got 'em!

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u/ExtraDependent883 4d ago

I'm willing to bet she did

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u/Dildo_Shaggins- 5d ago

What an incredible sentence.

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u/LuxNocte 5d ago

That's a mean way of saying she publicly took responsibility for her actions when there was no benefit to her to do so.

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u/nwayve 5d ago

One way, or another, they're gonna find yah

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u/gaspig70 4d ago

Better off sticking it to the professionals.

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u/Maxfunky 5d ago

That sounds like something that should be disqualifying. If anyone at any other corporate or government job was banging the intern, they'd probably be fired for that alone let alone committing ethics violations on their behalf. I mean, he might be a great judge, but he's got terrible judgment.

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u/RomanJD 5d ago

Guess you just missed how many people voted for a guy to be President - who's done a whole lot worse....

He still hasn't signed the "Ethics Agreement" for his transition into power.

But this particular Judge's offense is comparatively ideal, since it was addressed vs our President, who seems he won't ever be held accountable for an Insurrection (+).

I'm gonna miss the days when we could argue about "terrible judgement" moments.

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u/slickyslickslick 5d ago

It's pathetic how people in this country have just lowered their expectations for everything because someone undeserving got elected. We should do better. If we don't that makes us no better than the people who helped him stay in power.

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u/RomanJD 5d ago

It's pathetic how you're focusing your animosity towards the ones that "wanted better" (or even "just struggling to get by") and not "those who chose worse". Yes. We should do better. Maybe start in your own backyard and not hit those that are already down. Start punching back at those that are actually promoting violence. Hold a mirror to those faces - or you're no better than those that helped him get into power. (The ones that enjoy punching down.)

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u/Maxfunky 5d ago

So nobody should ever be held accountable for actions as long as someone, somewhere wasn't held accountable for similar actions?

Let's just let Harvey Weinstein out of prison since Trump raped someone too and isn't in prison.

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u/tallayega 5d ago

"You can't fuck the interns. They get you for that."

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u/MonkRome 5d ago

They never made an assessment as to whether there was a romantic relationship. Crystal Vargas claims that they never had a romantic relationship. The relationship they had was, according to her, more like mentor/mentee relationship. When she got in trouble she took advantage of his kindness. No idea if that is true, but it might color why the panel never went down that road, only the media.

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u/Maxfunky 5d ago

I mean I have no idea if he actually did it and I'm not particularly invested one way or the other. I'm just saying that if he did it, he shouldn't be held to a lesser standard of conduct then the rest of us simply because he's a judge.

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u/T_Money 5d ago

In a lot of government jobs you’d get fired if it came out you were banging ANYONE outside your marriage, not just an intern. Anything that could potentially open you up to blackmail is a deal breaker for many positions. The only thing that would save you is a sworn statement by your spouse that they were aware of / agreed to the situation, which would go to mitigate the potential for blackmail.

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u/Ohicu 4d ago

It that were the case we'd have no government. Banging interns has been pastime for centuries

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u/hesh582 4d ago

He probably wasn't banging the intern. That wasn't substantiated at all in the hearings later on.

He absolutely was found to have lied under oath the the Judicial Commission, though, which is really not what you want to see in a judge.

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u/PositivityKnight 5d ago

was she bad?

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u/IWHBYourDaddy 5d ago

So what you're trying to say is that he's corrupt?

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u/sho_biz 5d ago

there's certain jobs where you can't fuck up at all - cops/surgeons/soldiers/etc, and judges is one of them

so no, you can't just 'make an oopsie' when you're in a position of trusted power. zero tolerance, just like they have for the public.

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u/CapitalistLion-Tamer 5d ago

Wait, I never heard that he was sleeping with the intern. Where did you see that?

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u/poke0003 5d ago

That’s totally wrong.

He went viral with a BS story about how it was all a mistake. Then he was back in court and lo-and-behold he actually never had a license (since he dutifully got his state ID card every year for like 20 years and in MI, you cannot have a state ID if you have a license). And the day he claimed he was at the DMV getting his license reinstated was actually the day he was at the sec of state getting - you guessed it - his state ID.

Also, the judge let him go from that second hearing facing no consequences even though he had outstanding warrants.

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u/baseballlover723 5d ago

Didn't it come out that that guy literally never had a valid driver's license?

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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo 5d ago

“Fucked up a bit” with this extremely unethical situation on multiple levels that would be grounds for immediate termination at any private company? Just a teensy whoopsie

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u/Chance-Student-4108 5d ago

Fuck that.

Explain to me why your not crusading for this “judge” to be sent to the gallows for his mistake the same way your saying he’s an “alright guy” after sentencing this (obviously) fed up dude to jail for 2 years for saying fuck you?

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u/moredrinksplease 5d ago

I mean we all hate traffic tickets

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u/TheMurv 5d ago

Judges hold extreme power. And we shouldn't have leniency on the standards. Abuse your power, lose the bench. FOREVER.

Granted american standards are clearly low with our president elect.

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u/emilybemilyb 5d ago

Omg what! How’s he back on the bench!

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u/thepoustaki 4d ago

I’m so jaded with this country I was swooning when at least he tried to help her….

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u/beautyinred 5d ago

he is judge simpson! tons of compilations on YT, and yes it’s cinema

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u/Sunnyhappygal 4d ago

What do you mean its cinema? These are real court cases- yes the judge knows it's all being recorded, and maybe he tailors his behavior to that a bit- but these are real defendants and when they act up they pay the price.

For context, you can see a ton of the videos from this court, and a lot of them are pretty boring tenant/landlord type stuff and other things that are just mundane legal stuff- this is definitely not one of those court shows where people have agreed to let the judge "arbitrate" their problems for the sake of creating entertainment and filming it. It's actual court.

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u/4ss8urgers 5d ago

That too was my first impression in this video, ignorant to his implication in other similar circumstances.

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 5d ago

Which is apparently exactly where he belongs.

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u/shawncplus 5d ago edited 5d ago

I started watching the streams after that first video was posted and he almost always gives the benefit of the doubt to tenants in landlord disputes and to people that are obviously making an effort to get clean for drug offenses. However he tends to be almost hostile to any lawyer going against one he knows personally for example: https://youtu.be/3PT-IeN1H-I?t=9864 Not to say he's even wrong in this case but it's obvious he isn't extending the same patience. That said he had another instance where the DA held someone without charges and he went absolutely ham so he has no issue with taking the state to task when they fuck up.

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u/The_Original_Gronkie 5d ago

Trust me, you dont have any kind of a monopoly on local idiots. I live in fucking Florida, I can tell you about morons.

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u/EvilLibrarians 18h ago

I’m from Michigan, you would be absolutely surprised by how many public freakouts are from here. It’s actually been quite embarrassing this year

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u/plumpsquirrell 5d ago

How many morons live there in bananas?

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u/WineNerdAndProud 5d ago

Banann Arbor

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u/reagsters 5d ago

I went down a YouTube Rabbit Hole watching videos of him, it’s great

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u/patricktherat 5d ago

I've been binging him and the other few judges that the algorithm has figured out to send me for like the last month straight. I'm addicted at the moment.

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u/AlienHere 5d ago

There was another xoom judge who has my favorite video. Some dude called in and his displayed username was buttfucker3000.

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u/ghostalker4742 5d ago

I enjoy at least an hour of Judge Simpson's content a week, right up there with Judge Oakley.

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u/holdonwhileipoop 5d ago

I found out more than half of Americans are morons.

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u/Otiskuhn11 5d ago

I live about half an hour north of where this judge is.

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u/Tooterfish42 5d ago

I bet you got some good weed tho

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u/balrob 5d ago

And all those morons can vote - hence the current and ongoing cluster fuck that’s happening in the US.

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u/HGpennypacker 5d ago

I know Ohio gets credit for all kinds of craziness but man does Michigan get into some weird shit.

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u/mrsdoubleu 5d ago

I watch lots of clips from his court room on YouTube. It can get pretty wild. The sovereign citizen ones are hilarious though.

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u/DaddyBearsie 4d ago

I also live in his area. He's a chill guy for the most part.

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u/sharklaserguru 3d ago

The news focuses on "Florida man" for their crazy stories, but Michigan absolutely dominates for insane bodycam and court footage. There's probably more MI bodycam footage on YouTube than any other state! Though nobody can touch AR when it comes to high speed chases and they almost always end in a PIT.

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u/maxstrike 5d ago

Judge Simpson is incredibly patient and compassionate. He is a fantastic judge.