While it seems obvious today that Russia poses a threat to Ukraine, when I was practicing law, I was challenged at both the state and federal level for filing asylum claims for Ukrainians in the Chicago area.
When I was reciprocally attacked in Indiana for not violating any ethical rule, the Indiana Supreme Court ADA coordinator responded to my ADA complaint with a brute attack on my Ukrainian asylum cases, which she called “nonsense.”
So, Indiana today has suspended me for 5 years and the complaint 8 years ago said my asylum cases were nonsense.
My ADA cases that were attacked were perfectly rational and supported by fact and law, even if denied. So were my asylum cases. But because I dared to challenge the disability discrimination of my former employer, the Indiana Supreme Court, including its blanket ban on all disabled people becoming lawyers, my law career was reduced to a pile of ashes, like being hit by a red dragon’s fire.
My services are needed today with millions of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s military slaughter of their country, but I have fled to the Philippines and I seek asylum myself from the human rights violations of American courts, state and federal.
How ironic is that?
Today, I seek compensation for the taking of 5 law licenses for 5 years, but both the Federal Circuit and the D.C. Circuit have said they will not help. One might call it a judicial conspiracy to violate human and constitutional rights, in this case the Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment, but they call it “comity.”
It’s awful, losing your human rights, either to an advancing army or your own country’s judges. I feel for Ukrainians but cannot help because I am not a lawyer anymore.
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