A Dilemma for Justice by Roma K. Frey, Alternate Member Grand Jury, Solano County, CA

             

                                                        
                                                       A  DILEMMA FOR JUSTICE
          By Roma K. Frey, Alternate Member Grand Jury, Solano County, CA, September 3, 2014


Imagine a Democratic district attorney of a county arrested and pleading guilty to a charge of drunk-driving and a Republican state governor asking the district attorney to resign in the public interest.  The district attorney refuses to resign and launches an investigation against the governor.

Grand Jury of the county indicts the governor for abuse of power by his veto against the state funding for the county's Public Integrity Unit.  Grand Jury is blamed for its structural partiality toward Democratic Party.

Now the reality:  Governor is Rick Perry of Texas and the district attorney is Rosemary Lehmberg of Travis County in Texas.

The whole case is turned into Republican Party v/s Democratic Party.  For each party, it has become a metaphoric truth that the opposite party members either violate or circumvent laws.  By blaming each other, they feed the frenzy of the brain-fried supporters who believe that party loyalty is more important than justice.

Rule of law is for justice.  The foundation of justice id impartiality, equality, and fairness under the law.  In Democracy,it is not enough only to deliver justice, it must also be perceived as justice.

Now the issue is Should the Grand Jury members and the entire staff of Judiciary be non-partisan?
This the dilemma for justice in a partisan divided society.

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