The new Jim Crow - our Federal Judiciary's lack of regard for the civil rights of Black plaintiffs

February 19, 2026 - By Fred Bates

Federal judges view of civil rights today is the real Jim Crow 2.0

    Federal courts played a pivotal role in eliminating discrimination and racism during and after the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era ended with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Probably, the best known of the federal court cases dealing with civil rights is Brown v. Board of Education decided in 1954. Brown v. Board of Education found that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. It overturned the "separate but equal doctrine" of Plessy v. Ferguson handed down in 1896. Subsequent to the Brown case, the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, federal courts have handed down many other decisions eliminating discriminatory practices in voting, housing, education, transportation, employment, healthcare and other segments of society. This points out how important federal courts were to eliminating discrimination and racism against blacks and other marginalized citizens. 

    My opinion that federal judges today view civil rights in the same way as segregationists during Jim Crow is based on my litigation experience with the US District Court in San Jose, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the US Supreme Court. My opinion is also formed based on my observation of other civil rights cases decided by federal judges. The federal courts' disdain for civil rights cases is unmistakable. After the commendable efforts of the federal courts to eliminate racism and discrimination beginning with Brown v. Board of Education and continuing through perhaps the early 2000's, they have taken a dim view of individual civil rights cases, particularly those filed by pro se (self-represented) litigants.  

   My litigation experience with the US District Court, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and Supreme Court is documented extensively in a report that I submitted to the Supreme Court, Congress, and the Department of Justice. My litigation experience began with a lawsuit I filed against the City of San Jose in 2006 for discrimination based on my disability and race. I'm black/African American. The report shows with clarity that the discrimination I suffered at the hands of San Jose city officials was malicious, retaliatory, and was meant to cause me financial loss and extreme emotional pain and suffering. These City officials treated me with a total lack of respect and dignity that showed no sensitivity for my experiences as a black person that lived in the South during Jim Crow. It is one of the most flagrant cases of civil rights violations and bigotry imaginable because San Jose city officials admitted during litigation that they violated California law and city policy. Yet the US District Court in San Jose and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals conspired with the City to obstruct justice in order to cover up the City's racist decision to violate my civil rights. Please click on the website below to read the report and other documents that are proof that many of our federal judges have absolutely no regard for civil rights just as segregationists had no regard for the civil rights of blacks in the South during Jim Crow. 

    https://corruptioninourfederalcourts.com/

Chief Justice John Roberts and the Justices of the Supreme Court are engaged in a criminal cover-up

 February 16, 2026 - by Fred Bates

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices of the Supreme Court are committing an impeachable offense by covering up criminal misconduct that occurred in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the US District Court in San Jose

        The Supreme Court poses a greater threat to the Constitution, democracy and the rule of law than the President and Congress combined because it covers up criminal misconduct and corruption in our lower federal courts. In February of 2025, I sent a report to each of the Justices of the Supreme Court documenting criminal misconduct by officials with the City of San Jose, my former attorney, the US District Court in San Jose and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals during litigation of a discrimination lawsuit I filed against the City of San Jose. I am black/African American. The report presents indisputable facts and evidence that my attorney (Stuart Kirchick) conspired with the attorney for the City of San Jose (Michael Dodson) to perpetrate fraud on the US District Court in San Jose with the specific intent to obstruct justice. The fraud consisted of a joint case management statement making false claims as to facts, and a joint stipulation of dismissal of a defendant without my consent and without a settlement agreement. That defendant had clearly violated my constitutional rights to due process that are enshrined in California law. The report presents evidence that judges and court officials in the US District Court in San Jose and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals were complicit in the fraud by my attorney and San Jose city officials. 

    The report presents evidence that the US District Court in San Jose knowingly and intentionally violated the Constitution, federal statutory law and precedent of the Supreme Court and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The specific intent of the court was to obstruct justice by covering up the discriminatory and racist decision of San Jose city officials to deprive me of my due process rights when denying me a CCW permit upon my medical disability retirement from the San Jose Police Department as a sergeant. The report presents evidence proving that San Jose police officials committed perjury in their depositions, and in a declaration in support of the City's motion for summary judgment. Irrefutable evidence is also presented in the report that a judge and court officials in the US District Court in San Jose falsified docket entries in order to stage a fake hearing, without my knowledge, with a fake transcript and civil minutes on a motion for relief I filed. These are very serious felonies that completely undermine our judicial system, our democracy, and the rule of law.

    Despite the overwhelming evidence of the fraud and criminal misconduct of San Jose city officials, my attorney, the US District Court in San Jose and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Chief Justice Robert and the eight other Justices of the Supreme Court refused to take any action on a complaint report I sent to each detailing the misconduct of the above officials. It should also be noted that the Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari I filed in 2023 that documents the fraud by the City of San Jose, violations of the law and precedent by the US District Court in San Jose and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as bias by both courts.

    Chief Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court's blatant cover up of the criminal obstruction of justice by the City of San Jose, my attorney, the US District Court in San Jose and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is impeachable under the US constitution. Below is a link to my website with a copy of the report and letters I submitted to the Supreme Court and Congress in February 2025 documenting the criminal misconduct of San Jose city officials, my attorney, the US District Court in San Jose and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals:

https://corruptioninourfederalcourts.com/