Montco Judge Puts Respected Lawyer In Cuffs — We just posted the horror story involving Montgomery County, Pa.’s judicial system and then we learn this was just put on Facebook by National Safe Parents.
It concerns Richard Ducote, one of America’s leading litigators on matters of domestic abuse. Ducote, who is based in Louisiana, got a license to practice in Pennslvania in 2009.
Richard Ducote
He is representing noted ophthalmologist Dr. Nicole Gross in her own horror-story divorce case.
Montco Common Please Court Judge Kelly Wall had Ducote arrested and handcuffed, May 8, while he was questioning a witness, according to Danielle Pollack of National Safe Parents.
Ducote had said that Judge Wall should recuse herself as she had engaged in ex parte communications, which is a violation of judicial ethics.
He says his arrest was retaliation for this.
Ex parte is when one of the parties in a legal dispute is not present when an action occurs. Sometimes it’s allowed but usually not.
Silly Soviet Graffiti Seen In Media Borough — Borough GOP Chairman Michael Straw sent us this scrawl seen in Media during a recent Dining Under the Stars. The old Soviet Union is what progressive Democrats want, though. Wonder how many of them heard of Solzhenitsyn Wonder if they get that they aren’t going to the ones running things, and that to be a serf “sucks,” to quote Kevin Madden.
Montco Courts Still Won’t Let Jody McMahon See Her Kids — Maybe the evil was always there and maybe it just seems worse because it’s getting exposed.
Which would be a good thing, we suppose.
Anyway, here’s another story from Montgomery County, Pa.
Jody McMahon’s marriage hit the rocks, and she and her husband, Shawn, separated in 2017.
Jody, of West Pottsgrove, was an English teacher at Owen J. Roberts High School. Shawn was a financial adviser.
There was a custody fight over their four children. An adjudication hearing was held June 4, 2019. Shawn showed up with a team of lawyers. Jody represented herself.
Shawn got complete custody.
Why?
A custody evaluation described him as “immature and self-indulgent”. It said he “might go into rage because of poor impulse control.”
Among other things.
So why did he get complete custody?
Jody is an epileptic and prone to seizures. Is that a reason for a stripping a mom of all rights and contact with her children? Only in a place completely devoid of compassion.
A truly monstrous place.
Like Montgomery County.
Jody returned to court on Nov. 19 of that year. This time she brought a lawyer.
Or thought she did. The lawyer didn’t show. Jody says she learned the lawyer was pressured to drop her that morning.
Her American with Disabilities Act advocate, Tina Graham, stood by her, however.
Jody had a right to the advocate because of her epilepsy.
Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy was made aware of Jody’s condition and why Ms. Graham’s presence was needed.
During the hearing, Jody had a seizure.
Did the judge postpone the hearing? Call for an ambulance?
No, she put Jody in leg shackles and handcuffs, and charged her with contempt.
When the deputies lifted her from her chair they dropped her and her head banged the courtroom’s concrete floor.
So an ambulance was called, after all.
Her restraints weren’t removed, though, not even at the hospital.
There is a well-understood protocol for treating epileptic seizures. Unfortunately it can’t be done with one’s hands and feet shackled.
Jody fell again at the hospital, again banging her head on the floor.
This time she fractured her skull.
She also suffered a stroke.
Did Demchick-Alloy schedule a new hearing? No, she awarded Shawn sole custody.
Jody got one-hour-per- week supervised visitation for the first year.
There was no visitation during Covid.
Now, she gets 15 minutes per week with her children over Zoom. She has to pay $90 to the county for someone to supervise.
She says the children ask why she let their dog starve to death.
For the record, she didn’t.
You kind of wonder where they got the idea she did.
The $90 per week to talk to her children is her largest expense, she says. She is well below the poverty line.
Regarding what happened in Judge Demchick-Alloy’s courtroom, you would think the media would have made it a bigger issue.
KWY’s Carol MacKenzie had a story which was followed by crickets. Nothing in Larry Weilheimer’s Philadelphia Inquirer. Nothing on any of the local evening newscasts.
Somebodies and somethings are being protected.
Jody McMahon in happier times with her children.
Montco Courts Still Won’t Let Jody McMahon See Her Kids
Successful Insurgency In Pennsylvania House District 80
By Bob Small
The Pennsylvania 80th House District has been Republican since 1969. It encompasses Blair County — except Altoona and part of Huntingdon County. The Republican Primary is basically the general election.
On April 23, incumbent, Jim Gregory lost to Scott Barger 5,648 votes to 4,649.
It was basically a blow out.
A big issue was Gregory’s support of Mark Rozzi (D-126) as Speaker of the House when the Republicans had a temporary majority in January 2023.
Both Gregory and Rozzi are childhood sexual abuse survivors and were working on a”a constitutional amendment to relax the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse survivors.”
Barger who has degrees from both Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary served 15 years as a Pastor, then joined the family business WRTA – Altoona,PA, a news/talk radio station that also carries the Altoona Curve minor league team Altoona Curve.
Scott’s wife, Beth, is a public school teacher. They have five children.
On his campaign website, he lists five goals, including enacting a school report card and blockage of the Shapiro Energy Tax. He said “Our job as Representatives is to represent people from our district”.
He also received $15,000 from a PAC associated with State Senator Doug Mastriano (R-33)s.
Unless the Pennsylvania Alternative Parties (Constitution, Green, Libertarian, or Socialist Workers Party) or an Independent gains ballot status, Scott can waltz into office uncontested. This doesn’t speak well for our Pennsylvania Democracy.
Congress Shuns Passenger Safety in FAA Reauthorization
By Joe Guzzardi
The summer vacation travel schedule is just weeks away. Those who journey by air worry about the terrifying sequence of near-disasters that occurred during the past year, and are keeping their fingers crossed that their flights will take off and land without incident. Boeing has been at the forefront of quality concerns; after a six-week audit, the Federal Aviation Administration said that the agency found “multiple instances” of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies the aircraft manufacturer with fuselages, of failing to “comply with manufacturing quality control requirements.” As potential passengers look for ways to know what plane they’ll likely be on, airlines and booking sites offer alternatives for customers including omitting the troubled Boeing Max 9 from flight search results.The summer vacation travel schedule is just weeks away. Those who journey by air worry about the tThe summer vacation travel schedule is just weeks away. Those who journey by air worry about the terrifying sequence of near-disasters that occurred during the past year, and are keeping their fingers crossed that their flights will take off and land without incident. Boeing has been at the forefront of quality concerns; after a six-week audit, the Federal Aviation Administration said that the agency found “multiple instances” of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies the aircraft manufacturer with fuselages, of failing to “comply with manufacturing quality control requirements.” As potential passengers look for ways to know what plane they’ll likely be on, airlines and booking sites offer alternatives for customers including omitting the troubled Boeing Max 9 from flight search results.
While passengers worry that doors may blow out mid-air or tires might fall off during take-off, another grave but mostly unknown danger lurks. Unvetted illegal aliens are allowed on commercial flights, thanks to the Biden administration’s ongoing commitment to welcoming to America millions from around the world whose backgrounds and intentions are unknown. Currently, no U.S. citizens, lawful permanent resident immigrants, or legally present nonimmigrants may board an aircraft traveling to or within the United States without presenting a valid, government-issued photo ID or presenting one of numerous TSA-acceptable documents that will be closely scrutinized. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens and unvetted parolees can board aircraft for travel to or within the U. S. based solely on the biographic information they provided on the CBP-One app or verbally gave to the Border Patrol agents that processed them before releasing them into the interior. The name they provided could be fictional. Worse, the illegal aliens could have a criminal record and/or criminal intent.
This sequence of events regarding illegal aliens’ movements is, from beginning to end, illegal and unconstitutional. Border patrol agents should arrest, not release illegal aliens. The CBP-One app is an illegal scheme that the Biden administration cooked up to ease entry for inadmissible aliens at an official port of entry, and thereby make the masses accumulated at border less dramatic, and less politically damaging. The bogus app, not congressionally approved, eventually leads to parole and work permission. Biden has unconstitutionally abused the parole privilege, legally intended to be granted on a case-by-case basis, and not handed out en masse to thousands of illegal aliens. Through March 2024, 326,000 illegal aliens have arrived via air; the most adversely affected cities are Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and New York with respectively, 91,821, 60,461, and 14,827.
An opportunity to right Biden’s criminal wrongs regarding aliens’ air travel arrangements depends on Congress which has begun its deliberations on the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Congress can close the policy loophole that threatens public safety, allowing unvetted individuals with unverifiable identification to board aircraft traveling to or within the U.S. This is a clear and unacceptable public safety and national security risk. The FAA’s stated mission is “to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world.” On September 11, 2001, the U. S. learned the hard way that the nation must put primary emphasis on “safest” when it comes to air travel. As a direct result of 9/11, Congress passed the REAL ID Act in 2005, which requires states to fortify the security features of driver’s licenses and verify the citizenship or lawful immigration status of recipients of such licenses. Real ID was originally set to be enforced in 2008 but, because of congressional disinterest in enforcement, it has been delayed multiple times. The revised Real ID deadline for compliance with the identification requirements is 2025.
By allowing illegal aliens and parolees to board aircraft based only on the information they entered on the CBP-One app or that an overworked, dispirited Border Patrol agent filled in on Notice to Appear (NTA) or Notice to Report (NTR) forms, air carriers and the Department of Homeland Security are putting citizens or legally present immigrant passengers at risk. Such disinterest is especially troubling when FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned of an elevated threat from foreign terrorist organizations and admitted that record numbers of known terrorists have crossed the southern border. In FY 2023, agents apprehended 736 known or suspected terrorists at the Southwest border, the largest total in U.S. history.
The May 1oth deadline FAA reauthorization is at hand and legislators must move quickly to reach an accord on the 1,o68-page aviation bill. But seven last-minute proposed amendments threaten to derail what several senators are referring to as “must-pass” legislation. Some of the amendments included changes to credit card swipe fees, pilots ages, flights into and out of Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport. Congress should have included in the legislation to reauthorize the FAA Utah Senator Mike Lee’s S. 4051, the Verifying that all Aliens have Legitimate Identification Documents Act (the VALID Act). The VALID Act closes the dangerous loophole by prohibiting air carriers and DHS from accepting the CBP-One app, NTAs, or NTRs to board aircraft traveling to or within the United States. The simple result of passing legislation that includes VALID Act provisions is that every passenger on every flight operating in the U.S. will have presented verifiable photo identification prior to boarding. Without the VALID Act included in the reauthorization legislation, the FAA will not be able “to provide the safest…aerospace system in the world.” Introduced on March 22nd but, as of May 7th, the VALID Act has only ten co-sponsors, all Republicans. Travelers should be outraged that their security has been compromised so that illegal aliens can move about the country they don’t belong in with utmost ease, a disappointing revelation about how little either side of the aisle cares about citizens’ safety.
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org.
Congress Shuns Passenger Safety in FAA Reauthorization
Charlie and Sharon will describe the illegal alien crisis in Delaware County, Pa. and describe the harassment they have been receiving for speaking out.
James Roguski will discuss the WHO Pandemic Agreement in the first hour hour and he will be followed by Stephanie Borowicz of the Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus.
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Answer to yesterday‘s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Superman never made any money saving the world from Solomon Grundy. Crash Test Dummies
Sharon Devaney Bank Account Hacked — Charlie Alexander of Marple and Sharon Devaney passionately spoke about the illegal alien crisis in Delaware County, Pa. at the May 1 County Council meetingand a day later at a United4Delco event
Save 30 Percent Or More By Switching To Trump – It’s a little exaggeration but the point is perfectly made. The Consumer Price Index had the cost of goods and service up 17 percent under Resident Biden as of January.
Answer to yesterday‘s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. Thomas Jefferson
