National Forum On Judicial Accountability (NFOJA) is a grassroots, legislative initiative to vest randomly selected, trained, and rotating panels of private citizens with responsibility for state judicial disciplinary processes.  The concept has two basic premises:

 

The first is that “(r)estoring the Rule of Law when breached is an obligation of and should directly involve all Americans.”

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The second is that for the judicial branch of each U.S. state to competently interpret laws, determine their meaning, and settle disputes -- their judges need not self-discipline.

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Through community forums, NFOJA:

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• proposes a shift of America’s judicial oversight mechanisms to allow more direct citizen involvement in the resolution of judicial misconduct claims;

• justifies that shift based on balance of power considerations between average Americans and judges;

• makes clear that an imbalance of power results between judges and other Americans when judges directly or substantially control all the government processes for challenging their official conduct; and

• distinguishes our concern about that imbalance of power from considerations of judicial corruption and related abuses of power.