LUTHMANN NOTE: Judge Alexander fiddles while Connecticut’s court machinery keeps grinding. Larry Noodles’s Nero comparison has teeth: institutional prestige means nothing when leadership treats accountability as somebody else’s problem. And the ICE controversy cannot become another curtain drawn across the Cash for Kids and Pedo Rings. Children’s lives are at stake. A judicial title supplies no moral exemption from scrutiny, and a promise to review an incident supplies no substitute for an answer. Alexander owes the public leadership that can withstand examination. Lamont and Tong owe more than another performance for the cameras. Put down the fiddle. Account for the machinery. The courthouse belongs to the public, and children are nobody’s revenue stream. This piece is “Judge Fiddles As ICE Raids,” first available on The Family Court Circus.
The Connecticut Judiciary, run by Chief Administrative Judge Joan Alexander, AKA “Alexandria the Great,” AKA “Nero,” has remained silent after ICE agents raided the Meriden courthouse and hauled off a guy who was appearing in court for a traffic violation. Governor Lamont has declared the invasion “unlawful” and conducted “without a warrant.” The ICE agents also violated CT law by not taking off their masks. The Governor has promised to look into things with his buddy, Attorney General William Tong, right after they finish making videos boasting about all the great things they have done for the citizens of CT.
The Judges in Meriden should have held the ICE agents in contempt for violating CT law by not taking off their masks. The State Police should have arrested the ICE agents for assault, battery, destruction of property, creating a public disturbance, and nuisance- the laws that are normally applied to thugs who storm a governmental building, although I am unaware of any recent case where this has happened, other than mask-wearing Hamas supporters who break into college buildings and barricade themselves in the library.
The State should hire the Mossad to help them repel ICE. They could scramble their cell phones, use drones to follow them, monitor them on cameras, track them driving on the State highways, ram their police cars into them, bash in their windshields, shoot them point-blank, and ask questions later. This is what State and town cops do to unarmed private citizens all the time.
The Chief Court administrator is Joan Alexander. So far, no comment from Alexander. She was last seen hiding under her desk, cowering in fear. The only official comment has come from Stephen N. Ment, the executive director of the external affairs division of the Connecticut Judicial Branch, who earned $205K last year, and coincidentally is the son of the late Judge Aaron Ment, who was Chief Court Administrator for almost two decades.
The Connecticut Judiciary is a family-run business, not much different than the Corleones. Ironically, Judge Aaron Ment was installed in his position by the late urban political powerhouse Judge Robert J. Testo, of Bridgeport. Testo was forced into early retirement due to some kind of judicial nepotism scandal. He was probably the fall guy for some widespread problem at the time. According to the Hartford Courant: “Gov. William A. O’Neill nominated Testo for the new Appellate Court in 1983, but he withdrew from consideration after The Courant disclosed that five of his children and a niece had jobs in Superior Court, where he had been chief judge. He retired as a trial judge in 1985.” I heard from a Judge that Testo had to retire for a different reason having nothing to do with nepotism, as you can see in the case of Judge Aaron Ment and his son Stephen Ment, nepotism is nothing new in CT politics, which includes the Judiciary.
Testo’s Italian immigrant father, Christopher, was a Joe Kennedy type figure in Bridgeport, who ran a speakeasy in Bridgeport for years, frequented by many politically powerful men at the time. The late great African American Judge Leander Gray, who was also forced to resign early, another fall guy, told me that before he became a Judge he was part of a team of cops who busted into the Testo speakeasy. He said they gave Christopher a mop and told him to pretend he was a clueless worker, so he never got busted. Leander told me he was from DC, and the Testo speakeasy wasn’t much to speak about. Judge Robert Testo was an officer during WWII, just like JFK; they both served in the Pacific theater. He was appointed Judge at a time of his rising political power, in order to keep him out of politics. I guess he took the bait. Who knows, he could have been the next JFK.
Stephen Ment’s official statement on the ICE invasion: “We are reviewing the warrant presented to validate this information and are examining video of today’s incident to ensure that Connecticut state law was followed.” What is Mr. Ment going to do if State law was not followed? Throw his pencil at them? File a lawsuit? Please!
The three CT Supreme Court Justices who frequently vote together in support of police and prosecutorial power, at the expense of individual liberties, ie., Raheem Mullins (former State’s atty married to former State’s atty Nichelle Mullins, who currently works as a CT lobbyist and holds a position in the Lamont administration), Nora Dannehy (former US Atty married to US Atty), and Joan Alexander (unmarried former State’s atty) have not said a word about the abuse of police power by ICE agents. The silence is deafening! They assigned Stephen Ment to be the front man for the Judiciary. Of course. They want the Jew boy to be the fall guy! Blame everything on the Jew! As a Jew, I am personally offended. The goyim need to take more responsibility for their actions.
William Tong and Ned Lamont need to admit they made mistakes and do the right thing. Resign! Resign! Resign! Plus, they need to get Alexander married off already, nuuu, what is she waiting for? Tong and Lamont are very savvy with technology and self-promotion videos; they should create a nice profile for Alexander on JDate or Jud.CTDate, whatever her preference. Maybe they could set her up on a date with attorney Kosta Diamantis; I heard he is single, living in Greece, and lonely. Plus, he may be collecting his State pension soon; his money should go far in Greece.
