American Judges and Judiciaries Define Jury Duty As A Job - We Need To Back Up The Proof

A n earlier post here at I, Juror (California Judiciaries Publicly Defined Jury Duty As A Job. Now They Don't Want To Talk About It . . .) showed that judges in the

• American Federal
• California State
• Los Angeles County

judiciaries directly and / or indirectly defined jury duty as a job. That post also showed that those judiciaries themselves directly and / or indirectly defined jury duty as a job. The post had a lot of URLs to the webpages that prove all this, but those URL's might go bad sooner or later. This post will supply URL's that backup these resources. Hopefully, these backups will work for a long, long time.

This YouTube vid clearly defines jury duty as a job. Los Angeles County Judge Daniel Buckley co-starred in that vid. For a long time, anyone could freely see that vid, but well before January 29, 2021, that vid mysteriously went private. This Wayback Machine resource shows that the LA Court YouTube channel owns and operates that vid, so the admins of that channel can likely explain the whole history of the vid, and just exactly how it went private. Fortunately, we can find the equivalent content of that mysterious vid here at the Wayback Machine. Fast forward to 1:24 for the pull quote. Sooner or later, a forensic investigation will show who ordered the privacy setting for this vid at YouTube, and why. Taxpayers and jurors have the right to know that story, because we employ everyone at the Los Angeles County Judiciary, including Judge Buckley.

Definitely as of March 13, 2016, through at least March 15, 2019, the Los Angeles County Judiciary jury duty web page directly embedded the Judge Buckley vid. This judiciary might well have embedded that vid, or its equivalent content, much earlier. As of March 19, 2019, the vid vanished from that web page and stayed vanished. That vid embed lasted many years, and it proved that the Los Angeles County Judiciary agreed, declared, and defined that jury duty is a job. Since that judiciary never rolled back that declaration, it still defines jury duty as a job. One day, a forensic investigation will show who ordered this March 19, 2019 jury duty web page edit, and why. Taxpayers and jurors have the right to see the information, because we employ everyone at the Los Angeles County Judiciary, including Judge Buckley.

Definitely as of June 28, 2015, and certainly through July 6, 2019, the California state-level judiciary embedded the equivalent Judge Buckley YouTube vid content at its official jury duty web page. This judiciary might well have embedded that vid, or its equivalent content, even earlier. That vid embed proved that the California Judiciary agreed and defined that jury duty is a job. California Supreme Court Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye just loves jury duty (here and here). Historically, that California Judiciary jury duty web page clearly showed that Justice Cantil-Sakauye agreed and defined that jury duty is a job, because it placed her picture, and a quote from her, really close to the vid embed. As of July 30, 2019, that judiciary removed the vid from its jury duty web page. Justice Cantil-Sakauye might have endorsed that removal. However, because of the embed of the Judge Buckley vid at the CA Judiciary jury duty web page, the CA judiciary formally agrees, declares, and defines that jury duty is a job until it says otherwise. One day, a forensic investigation will show who ordered the edit, and why. Taxpayers and jurors have the right to see the information, because we employ everyone at the California Judiciary, including Justice Cantil-Sakauye.

The United States Federal Judiciary operates the United States Courts YouTube channel. That channel hosts this vid, where Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel clearly defined jury duty as a job, as of November 22, 2013. The vid has not disappeared as of January 29, 2021 in any way, and at the Wayback Machine, we can find its content here as a backup. This vid proves that the United States Federal Judiciary agreed and defined that jury duty is a job.

We clearly see above that

• Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel
• California Supreme Court Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye
• Los Angeles County Judge Daniel Buckley

each and all directly and / or indirectly defined jury duty as a job. Additionally, the reporting above shows that the

• United States Federal Judiciary
• California Judiciary
• Los Angeles County Judiciary

each and all directly and / or indirectly defined jury duty as a job. Countless Americans remember the jury duty voir dire warmup speeches, where lawyers and judges formally described jury duty as a job. I clearly remember it. These six major stakeholders alone must then logically support everything those definitions require

• the highest prevailing minimum wage, for all hours of jury duty employment, with zero tax and zero tax paperwork - instead of $15.00 per day, taxable and starting day TWO (last increase: July 1, 2000)


• the California government legislature employee mileage rate for jurors, covering all miles honestly counted, for travel between home and the official jury duty parking lot, with zero tax and zero tax paperwork - instead of 17 cents a mile, taxable and starting day TWO (last increase: July 1, 2000)

and additionally, those stakeholders will support top-to-bottom California jury duty system hiring fairness audits. These audits will verify whether or not Americans who pay "massive" amounts of political campaign contribution money (PCCM) handle jury duty the same way that Americans who pay zero PCCM handle jury duty. If even one of the listed stakeholders opposes any of these government policy products, that stakeholder needs to immediately explain why. Taxpayers and jurors have the right to see the information, because we employ all of the judges listed above, and we employ everyone who works in the judiciaries listed above.
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While we're at it, we should also carefully note certain mysterious PCCM payments of Barb(a)ra Streisand(s). Often enough, these payments happen in potentially related groups. For example:

1.  This

     September 9, 2006 payment to Senator Chris Murphy

          (see the original FEC document here)

     and this

     September 9, 2006 payment to Representative Joseph Courtney

          (see the original FEC document here)

Read more about these payments here
2.  This

     November 2, 2018 payment to Rep. Eric Swalwell

          (see the original FEC document here)

     and this

     May 28, 2020 payment to Elizabeth Pannill Fletcher

          (see the original FEC document here)

Hint 1: try to find that Fletcher payment address on a map

Hint 2: try to find that Swalwell payment if you don't have its FEC URL. See an FEC search result backup for that Swalwell payment here.
3.  A mysterious January 13, 2020 payment to "Bollier for Kansas"

          (see the original FEC document here)

     Hint: try to find its mailing address on a map
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Over time, jurors will become more aware of their labor, employment, and constitutional rights as jury duty temp job employees. Their full-time government employees, and maybe even some lawyers, might try to deny the truth behind those rights. The evidence - the proof - shown and backed up here will help jurors prove the truth and prove those rights.

Presidential Candidate(s) Thomas Steyer(s), and Jury Duty

Thomas Steyer(s) sure do pay lots of political campaign contribution money. At least one of them ran for president in the 2020 campaign. According to many reports, U.S. presidential candidate Thomas Steyer showed up for jury duty in late August, 2019. At the Tom Steyer Twitter page, this August 26, 2019 tweet

https://twitter.com/TomSteyer/status/1166127085745668096

stated that he " . . . had jury duty." Well, I believe that as a campaign issue, the Steyer campaign would have logically published many reports, pictures, vids, and tweets about his jury duty service. This material would spotlight

• Steyer's jury duty paperwork

• Steyer's arrival in the jury duty parking lot

• Steyer walking around on San Francisco sidewalks near the courtroom building, relying on the latest San Francisco poop app navigation tools

• Steyer walking through the metal detectors

• Steyer waiting in the jury duty ready room

• tons of Steyer selfies with other jurors

• Steyer waiting in the hallway outside a courtroom

• Steyer in the cafeteria

• potential post-jury duty Steyer interviews

and so on. Other jurors would have taken and published tons of selfies with him. Donald Trump, for example, got a lot of publicity about his own jury duty service. So did Senator Ted Cruz. However, I never found similar material for Presidential Candidate Steyer. He would have scored endless hours of free publicity for his presidential campaign if he physically showed up for jury duty. Even if Presidential Candidate Steyer stayed on call and never physically showed up at the courtroom building, he would logically tweet about this at least once a day while he waited, and he would have published many pix of his jury duty paperwork. In this way, he still would have squeezed tons of free publicity out of it. If Steyer has campaign consultants, at least one of them should have ordered him to do all this, and as it happened. He has billions of dollars, and he must pay them lots of money to think of these things. I trust what Mr. Steyer stated about his jury duty service. I also want to verify it. I doubt that Mr. Steyer(s) would ever tell a lie about his / their jury duty service . . .

Questions About Certain Barb(a)ra Streisand Political Campaign Contribution Money (PCCM) Payments, Part One

As part of my research for Common Sense - Third Millennium and the I, Juror blog, I focused on the political campaign contribution money (PCCM) history of Barb(a)ra Streisand. I built this spreadsheet file to show what I found. With a Google account, download the spreadsheet here. The file includes four tabs that cover the federal and California state PCCM activity of Streisand, and four similar tabs for Thomas Steyer. For Steyer, all information in this spreadsheet tab came from this old version of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) website. This newer FEC website replaced that older version, but the information stayed the same. I noticed aspects of this PCCM information that seemed, in my personal opinion . . . "unusual". This article will explore those "unusual" aspects of specific PCCM payments made by Streisand, and will raise relevant questions about those payments. The information for both parts of this article originally came from this spreadsheet file, and I transferred the relevant information from that file to this second spreadsheet file to summarize it. I did not change the information as I transferred it from file to file, and for the tabs in the second file, I added row number, payment mailing address, and notes columns

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) website states that "Barbara Streisand" paid PCCM to the campaign of Connecticut House of Representatives candidate Joseph Courtney. That campaign received the payment on September 9, 2006. Streisand made this payment from a Pomona, California address. Based on information from the FEC website, and the California state political campaign contribution websites here (this website is no longer active; this new website version replaced it), Streisand made only one PCCM payment from Pomona. At first, I did not think much about all this. However, I never really forgot about it and I recently took a closer look. Some research for this article shows that past this one payment, no clear connection between Streisand and Pomona exists. Then, I went back to the summary spreadsheet. On that spreadsheet tab, column K has links to the actual payment images as hosted by the FEC website. For the Pomona PCCM payment, I scrolled over to column K. From that cell, I opened this image

1. https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940431288

QR code for https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940431288 

and sure enough, item B showed the payment information and the Pomona address. Then, back at the spreadsheet, I moved down one row, and in column K, I opened this image

2. https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940922555

QR code for https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940922555

for that payment. In image 2, item A showed a second Streisand payment, also received on September 9, 2006, this time paid to Connecticut U.S. Senator Chris Murphy. I saw something really weird about these payments.

Item A from image 2, and Item B from image 1, both clearly show that these political campaigns received these separate PCCM payments on the same day: September 9, 2006. The items show the name and address payment information

Item A (image 2):

     Barbra Streisand
     C/O Boulevard Management
     21650 Oxnard St.
     Woodland Hills, CA 91367

Item B (image 1):

     Barbara Streisand
     c/o Boulevard Management
     21650 Oxnard Street, Suite 1925
     Pomona, CA 91767-7888

for the payments. For some unknown reason, the first names differ by one letter. However, the address information for the payments has huge differences. Bing Maps and Google Maps both independently show that the Item A (image two) address exists. When I typed the Item B (image one) address for Barbara Streisand in the Bing Maps upper left textbox, it returned

We couldn’t find any matches for:

21650 Oxnard Street, Suite 1925 Pomona, CA 91767-7888

Check the spelling or add more details such as the city or country.

and for that address, Google Maps returned

Partial matches

21650 Oxnard Street, Suite 1925 Pomona, CA 91767-7888

"21650 Oxnard Street, Suite 1925" "CA"

21650 W Oxnard St #1925

Woodland Hills, CA 91367

"Pomona, CA 91767"

Pomona, CA 91767

and these both mean that these mapping tools did not find the Pomona address. Neither tool could find the address even when I removed Suite 1925. Then, I used SmartyStreets for a reverse lookup based on the Item B Zip Code

91767-7888

value. For a ZIP Code lookup type and ZIP Code "91767-7888," SmartyStreets returned a map that did not show a street named "Oxnard."

This research verified that an "Oxnard Street" in Pomona, CA does not exist and did not exist in since late February, 2019. This street very likely never existed, but I decided to do some research to make sure. I found a Thomas Guide from 1990

Los Angeles County / Orange County Thomas Guide - 1990 Edition

and in the L.A. County index, I looked at page 278

1990 Thomas Guide, page 278 - looking for Oxnard Street, Pomona, CA

and page 279

1990 Thomas Guide, page 279 - looking for Oxnard Street, Pomona, CA

to find Oxnard Street. The CITY column for each Oxnard Street record shows "LA", which means "Los Angeles". Woodland Hills lands inside Los Angeles City territory, so the city looks correct for these Oxnard Street records. Then, I looked for a proven Pomona, CA address in the Thomas Guide index, to verify the findings. Starting at the bottom left of this image

1990 Thomas Guide, page 299 - an actual, Pomona, CA record at the lower left

I found two records for Temple Avenue in Pomona. Cal Poly Pomona has a verified mailing address location of

     Cal Poly Pomona
     3801 West Temple Avenue
     Pomona, California 91768

and page 299 of the 1990 Thomas Guide shows that a Pomona, CA address has a CITY column code of "POM". So, all of this information, starting with the 1990 Thomas Guide, proves that Oxnard Street in Pomona, CA never existed in 1990. Pomona, CA most likely never built a temporary Oxnard Street, inside its territory, for the one-day September 9, 2006 personal use of Barbara Streisand. All the evidence shows that the address

      21650 Oxnard Street, Suite 1925
      Pomona, CA 91767-7888

that Barbara Streisand used for this September 9, 2006 political campaign contribution money payment, as described above, almost certainly never once existed. The Los Angeles County Assessor Portal verifies that this address never existed. The September 9, 2006 Barbra Streisand / Barbara Streisand payment information described here does not involve a simple typo. It involves major differences and logically, at least one impartial stakeholder, including the Federal Election Commission, should have raised red flags and asked questions about it. The campaign of House member Joe Courtney of Connecticut received the payment, and Rep. Courtney should have asked questions about it himself.

Taken together, all these facts look really improper - at best. It makes no logical sense that someone would pay two separate political campaign contributions, with

• two different names
• two source locations
• almost identical street addresses
• completely different cities and zip codes

and so close in time. These payments must have happened within a few days of each other because different political campaigns received them on the same day. This means that the person who wrote the paperwork for them probably knew to use consistent street address, city, and zip code information for those payments. At this time, I definitely don't understand why this "combined" paperwork would show an address that does not exist. These payments raise many questions. In no specific order:

1. If Barbra Streisand made both of these payments - within a few days of each other at most - why did she use two different names for them? If someone else filled out all the paperwork for these payments, did Barbra Streisand and / or Barbara Streisand approve the use of those different names?

2. If Barbra Streisand made both of these payments - within a few days of each other at most - why does one payment show an address that three websites can't find? Did Barbra Streisand and / or Barbara Streisand approve the use of this address information?

3. If one payment has incorrect address information, does that payment also have incorrect payment amount information?

4. Does and / or did the FEC approve the Barbra Streisand political campaign contribution payment with the apparently inconsistent information? If yes, why? If no, why not? Did the FEC ever investigate this issue?

5. Extending question 4, if the FEC investigated, they need to release the results of the investigation. If they did not investigate, why not? The IRS investigates and punishes incorrect tax return information wrongdoing from taxpayers, so based on Amendment 14, Equal Protection Clause, United States Constitution, the FEC must do the same with political campaign contribution money payments.

6. What do Representative Joe Courtney (D-CT) and Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) know about these payments, and when did they know it?

7. If at least one of these payments involves illegal behavior, and Representative Courtney and / or Senator Murphy did not know about it, how do they plan to handle the situation, once they become aware of it?

8. Does other Barb(a)ra Streisand government paperwork (for example and including, but not limited to, IRS, SEC, California FTB, L.A. County Assessor's Office, etc.) show information that raises questions in a similar way? If yes, then law enforcement agencies must openly, publicly, and fully investigate the situation(s), and prosecute any detected illegal behavior, to the fullest extent of federal, state, and local law.

9. At least one piece of government paperwork shows that Barbara Streisand used a non-existent Pomona, CA mailing address (see above). "Barbara Streisand" is one letter away from "Barbra Streisand." If the Los Angeles County (LAC) jury duty system also shows that she / they use that Pomona, CA address, then she / they will never receive any jury duty paperwork sent to that address, because the address does not exist. The L.A. County jury duty system would have a major bureaucratic hassle to get the paperwork to her / them, at best. If this happened with her / their jury duty paperwork, I demand to know

• under what circumstances did the LAC jury duty system receive that address information?
• what steps / procedures transported that information to the LAC jury duty system?
• when did the LAC jury duty system receive that information?
• which LAC jury duty system employee(s) placed this information into the LAC jury duty system?
• did the LAC jury duty system ever audit the information for accuracy?
• if yes, what did it find?
• if no, why not?
• did the LAC jury duty system send jury duty paperwork to that address? If yes, when did it send that paperwork? If yes, what name(s) did it use to address the paperwork? If yes, then what happened?

immediately.

18 U.S.C. § 1001 states

" . . . whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully . . . makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry; shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both . . ."

Barbara Streisand clearly did this behavior three (3) times. FEC paperwork is a matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch(es) of the Government of the United States. The September 9, 2006 payments shown above alone clearly involve false writing, known to contain materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry. Therefore, Barb(a)ra Streisand needs to get prosecuted in a federal court, and based on the evidence shown in this article, she needs to get fined and imprisoned if convicted. Otherwise, when I get answers to the above questions, I will publish a new article with those answers.

Questions About Certain Streisand / Steyer Political Campaign Contribution Money (PCCM) Payments, Part Two

Part One of this article described certain political campaign contribution money (PCCM) payments made by Barbra Streisand. Then, it asked questions about those payments. This second part will describe a sample of PCCM payments made by Thomas Steyer, and ask questions about those payments. This spreadsheet tab shows those Steyer payments, summarizing a row sample from this I, Juror spreadsheet tab. With a Google account, download the spreadsheet file here. All the information about these payments originally came from this old version of the Federal Election Commission website. This newer version has since replaced that older version..

This spreadsheet tab shows PCCM payments made by gentlemen named "Thomas Fahr Steyer," "Thomas F. Steyer," and "Thomas F Steyer." The Federal Election Commission website shows receipt dates for those payments between August 29, 2016 and August 31, 2016.

• "Thomas Fahr Steyer" made one PCCM payment, received on August 29, 2016 by the Raul Ruiz Congressional campaign.
• "Thomas F. Steyer" made 63 PCCM payments, received on August 29, 2016 by organizations and candidates all around the U.S.
• "Thomas F Steyer" made one PCCM payment, received on August 30, 2016 by the Democratic Party of Santa Cruz County. (Scroll to row 136 if necessary)
• "Thomas F. Steyer" made one PCCM payment, received on August 31, 2016 by the Jerry McNerny Congressional campaign. (Scroll to row 138 if necessary)

Certain aspects of the Steyer payments shown in this spreadsheet tab stood out. First, contributor "Thomas Fahr Steyer" made one PCCM payment - number 1 (one) in the spreadsheet tab, received on August 29, 2016 - from the

1438 Webster St Ste 100
Oakland CA 94612-3229

address. Then, contributor "Thomas F. Steyer" made sixty-three contributions, all received on August 29, 2016, from the

3 Lagoon Dr Ste 400
Redwood City CA 94065-5157

and

3 Lagoon Dr Ste 400
Redwood City CA 94065-1565

addresses. Similar to the Barbra Streisand PCCM payments of September 9, 2006 described in Part One, Steyer paid PCCM money, from mailing addresses that have unexplained differences, on the same day. The spreadsheet tab shows those payments, numbered 2 (two) through 64 (sixty-four). We'll explore these payments shortly. Contributor "Thomas F Steyer" made one PCCM payment - number 65 (sixty-five), and received on August 30, 2016 - from the

111 Sutter St
San Francisco, CA 94104

address. Finally, contributor "Thomas F. Steyer" made a PCCM payment - number 66 (sixty-six) on the spreadsheet tab, from the

3030 Pacific Ave
San Francisco CA 94115-1014

address, and received on August 31, 2016.

This list

PAYMENT AMOUNT       COUNT $   878.92         6 $   878.95       13 $   878.96         9 $ 6850.55         7 $ 7207.95         7 $ 7535.59         7

summarizes the Steyer PCCM payments received on August 29, 2016. The sixty-four (64) Steyer PCCM payments, received on August 29, 2016, as shown in that list, raise many questions.

1. Why did people named Thomas Steyer use so many addresses for the PCCM payments received starting on August 29, 2016 through August 31, 2016?

"Thomas Fahr Steyer" issued a PCCM payment received on August 29, 2016, from an Oakland, CA address

"Thomas F. Steyer" issued 63 PCCM payments, 61 from the exact same Redwood City address, two from another Redwood City address that differs from the first group address only in the second zip code digit group, and all 63 received on August 30, 2016

"Thomas F Steyer" issued a PCCM payment, received on August 30, 2016, from a San Francisco, CA address

"Thomas F. Steyer" issued a PCCM payment, received on August 31, 2016, from a different San Francisco, CA address

2. The distance between the Oakland and Redwood City addresses exceeds thirty miles. The distance between the Redwood City and San Francisco Sutter Street addresses exceeds twenty-two miles. For the third and fourth PCCM payments described in the above list, the San Francisco addresses have a distance of about 2.8 miles between them. Why did people named Thomas Steyer travel between so many different addresses, and so fast, to make so many PCCM payments?

3. As an example, "Thomas F. Steyer" has paid $11 million for one PCCM payment, received less than two months after his PCCM payments received on August 29, 2016. Compared to that massive payment, why did he make 63 comparatively small PCCM payments, and all on one day, as described in the list of question 1) above? Why did Steyer make so many PCCM payments for the same small amounts? Why did Steyer choose these "non-round" numbers for these payments in the way he did?

4. These images

• image 1
• image 2
• image 3
• image 4

show that "Thomas F. Steyer" made four PCCM payments, each for $878.96, and each received on August 29, 2016. They also show that Kathryn Ann Taylor made four PCCM payments, each for $878.96, and each received on October 12, 2016. The Kathryn Ann Taylor PCCM payments happened from an address inside the same building where "Thomas F Steyer" made one PCCM payment received on August 30, 2016. So . . . for all of these payments, why would Taylor and Steyer choose the same "unusual" amount, and so many times?

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Work to answer these questions proceeds because these questions directly relate to American government operations. Because these questions arose as part of research into and investigations about American jury duty law, I, Juror will report the results of its investigations into these questions.

The Hollywood 'Elite': Political Activism, Money, and Jury Duty . . .

To help explain the American Health Care Act, "expert" and Harvard economics PhD Jonathan Gruber freely ranted about " . . . the stupidity of the American voter." No one noticed or cared until Rich Weinstein

Twitter: @phillyrich1

discovered and publicized that rant. Rich's efforts caught on and America saw and heard the truth. As a result, we have a new verb: "to gruber." Rich motivated other " . . . idiots like [himself]" to find other examples. Well, a Hollywood screenwriter freely grubered in August, 2018 - in print - and I'm the idiot who caught the whole thing. This article describes what I found and the so-far unanswered questions behind it. Those unanswered questions reach into jury duty service fairness and equality.

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On August 2, 2018, The Hollywood Reporter published Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Too Far Left for Hollywood? by Peter Kiefer and Chris Gardner. The article covered a late July / early August, 2018 visit to the Los Angeles area by Congressional candidate Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez. The reporters interviewed Hollywood screenwriter Jennifer Levin for their article. The article focused on Levin in one paragraph, and it included direct quotes. The article explained that Levin has worked on Hollywood productions as a screenwriter, and IMDB confirms this. In the paragraph, Levin made a comment about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Then, the paragraph explained that Levin

" . . . moonlights as a grassroots activist working to flip a number of California [Congressional] seats . . ."

and as a free, free-thinking American, Levin obviously has all the rights in America to do this. The article paragraph continued with Levin's quoted statement

"Let's be honest: We represent the money. We are the elite."

where she described herself and her colleagues. Note that I added the bold / italic formatting. Wow. In my opinion, those two sentences look explosive. They sure scared the hell out of me because combined with Levin's "grassroots activis[m]," they tied money and "elite" status all together. One would think that reporters Kiefer and Gardner would ask her questions about these statements. I would have thought that The Hollywood Reporter leadership would instruct Kiefer and Gardner, and / or other employees of The Hollywood Reporter, to further investigate these statements. To the best of my knowledge, no one at The Hollywood Reporter did any of this, so I did it for them. They're welcome.

I don't have much money. Therefore, I need Member of the Elite (MOTE) Levin to help me understand just exactly what " . . . We represent the money" means - more about this later. However, as a commoner American¹, I most definitely understand that " . . . We are the elite" part. As a non-lawyer, I have read the United States Constitution - cover to cover. The U.S. Constitution outlaws both federal-level and state-level titles of nobility. To the best of my knowledge, MOTE Levin and her colleagues do not have any titles of nobility - but that "elite" business sure looks noble to me. That "elite" sentence ties into our old friend Amendment 14, Equal Protection Clause, United States Constitution. I can't get enough of this clause. It works like duct tape, or WD-40. A non-lawyer commoner American like myself can use it everywhere to repair everything. Since MOTE Levin and her colleagues

1. "represent the money"

and

2. have "elite" status

then first, I want MOTE Levin to explain what these items exactly mean, in light of the Equal Protection Clause. In other words, I want MOTE Levin to explain just exactly how she / her colleagues "represent the money." Then, assuming the Equal Protection Clause works, I want her to explain what I can represent if I have no money to represent. Second, I want to know if MOTE Levin and / or her "elite" colleagues receive any sort of benefit from government employees, in any way, that is unavailable to commoner Americans like myself. If she / they do receive these benefits, I want the full story, background, and picture about that / those benefits. The alleged allegations about former Los Angeles County Property Tax Assessor John Noguez - unproven one way or another so far - make these questions totally relevant. The more recent arrest of Beverly Hills real estate developer Arman Gabaee also makes these questions totally relevant. Both Hollywood and Beverly Hills land in Los Angeles County territory.

In my journalist role, I wrote up what became a list of questions



for MOTE Levin. Click here to see that question list in a new browser tab, for download as a PDF. As mentioned earlier, in the question list I asked MOTE Levin, point-blank, to please explain how "representation of money" works. I ended up asking her nineteen (19) questions in total. I included plenty of questions about

1. her opinions about jury duty

2. her jury duty history

3. the jury duty history of other folks who "represent the money" and / or who have "elite" status

to learn more about how the "elite" handles American jury duty. I have the qualifications for this because in my role as a non-lawyer commoner American, I became the best jury duty law expert in America. Amendment I, Freedom of the Press Clause, United States Constitution guarantees me the right to ask these questions and to publish and report about these questions. Full disclosure: I researched the jury duty history of MOTE Levin the same way I researched the jury duty history of Barbra Streisand and Thomas Steyer. I did my best but once again, I found no information on this topic. Then, I had to find a way to contact MOTE Levin to send her the questions. After some research, I found the

@jenniferlevin22

Twitter handle. I sent this tweet to @jenniferlevin22 through Twitter. So far, MOTE Levin has not answered. I figured I waited long enough, so I published this article. I welcome answers to these questions from MOTE Levin and I will write a new article about her answers after she sends those answers to me.

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¹ An American citizen who has never voluntarily paid and / or voluntarily received political campaign contribution money. See Common Sense - Third Millennium for more.^↩

American Jury Duty Has Major Zero-Day Flaws

In America, the United States Constitution guarantees that everyone with a civil law or criminal law dispute has the right to a trial by jury. For this to work, American citizens have to serve as jurors. Most Americans likely don’t want to deal with jury duty, but eventually, they understand the situation - I have to do this because I would want a jury trial option for myself - and they proceed. American jurors might not realize that the United States Constitution guarantees jurors the right to minimum wage and fair mileage in return for their service. Existing jury duty pay and mileage levels have become zero-day flaws in the American justice system, and government employees must fix those flaws immediately.

In 2017, the Los Angeles County Juror Services Office sent me a jury duty summons. It sure wasn't my idea - and I had no choice. I did exactly what they told me. Just as the paperwork told me, I first called the Los Angeles County Superior Court (LACSC) phone number to register. Later on, I watched an online jury duty training vid. Then, I took a jury duty test to qualify as a juror. I read all the jury duty paperwork, and I learned that starting day two, I would receive $15.00 a day - taxable - as my jury duty salary. That sure looked wrong. Based on what I learned from the the jury duty paperwork and the training vid, I saw jury duty as a job, even at that early stage. As a job, jury duty entitled me to minimum wage for ALL hours that I worked as a juror. This would cover day one, and the personal time I used for the required jury duty training and test. I also learned that Los Angeles County would pay me seventeen cents a mile - taxable - for my jury duty commuting expenses, also starting on day two. That mileage price also looked wrong. Gasoline in the Los Angeles area costs much more than $3.00 a gallon. Seventeen cents a mile would never cover my fuel expenses, wear and tear on my car, or wear and tear on me.

After a little more research, I learned that California jurors last got a raise sometime around the turn of the century, through a California government law. California jury duty pay and mileage amounts did not rise with federal / state minimum wage level increases or inflation. The basic IRS definition of a job clearly covers jury duty. It still amazes me that a federal judge defined jury duty as a job, to explain what he demands from jurors, but somehow, he stayed silent about how jurors therefore earn minimum wage as jury duty employees. Los Angeles County government obviously agrees with him, because they embedded this vid at the official Los Angeles County government jury duty website. California government alone has increased minimum wage rates many times since 1999, but those increases don’t cover jury duty. California has increased direct and indirect gas taxes many times, including a new twelve cent per gallon gas tax this past November. I'd sure like to know why California legislators never increased the jury duty mileage payment to compensate for those increased taxes. However, as a California taxpayer, I pay all California legislators a $104,000 annual taxable salary. I gave them plenty of raises since the year 2000. I pay each of them a $183 daily per diem, and they made sure they pay zero tax on that per diem. I also pay each of them 53 cents a mile for their own commuting expenses - also tax-free. When they call it "per diem" "travel expense" money, maybe they think it sounds better when they pay zero tax on it. Based on these facts, California legislators can't wait to invent government laws that pay tax-free minimum wage for all hours that Californian jury duty temp job employees work as jurors. Those legislators can't wait to invent laws that pay California jurors 53 cents a mile - tax-free - for every honestly-counted mile every California jury duty employee drives between home and the official jury duty parking lots. Those legislators will just need a little motivation to get going.

Soon enough, LACSC told me to get to the L.A. County Airport courthouse on May 24, 2017 at 9:30 AM PST. I did exactly that, and except for the lunch hour, I spent my whole time there in the jury duty ready room. I never landed in a trial, and the jury duty staff released me at about 3:30 PM PST. When I got home, I read the U.S. Constitution because I remembered that it would guarantee my rights, even as a juror. I just needed to find the exact amendment. Yup - Amendment 13, Involuntary Servitude Clause, U.S. Constitution covered me. After all, my full-time jury duty employers, at least one major federal judge, Los Angeles County government, and myself all agree that jury duty is a job. I never applied for that job. I received no pay and no mileage compensation at all for that job. As a non-lawyer American, my cynicism about jury duty grew and I researched all these issues. To learn more about how eligible Americans deal with jury duty, I investigated the jury duty history of both Thomas Steyer and Barbra Streisand. I ended up with many questions and no answers about them because I hit massive government secrecy walls. I taught myself jury duty law, and when I wrote and published Common Sense - Third Millennium, I became the best jury duty law expert in the United States of America.

If I paid political campaign contribution money, I believe that government employees would reform jury duty pay and mileage, and would de-taxify jury duty, if I explained - with my payment - those exact demands. I have never touched political campaign contribution money, and I never will. I now see jury duty service as a political campaign contribution. This makes perfect sense, because government employees have something I want - jury duty reform. Eventually, I will once again have something government employees want - jury duty employment. If government employees, including legislators, don’t reform jury duty, then during my next jury duty voir dire temp job interview, I will have to explain the situation to the hiring judge. If that judge does not build and / or arrange to build a pay and mileage jury duty employee compensation package that must obviously happen, I will resign to that judge. I will do this to protect my Constitutional rights and economic survival. I have the right to do this. My resignation will help motivate government employees to reform jury duty. This means that jury duty will begin to formally operate just like political campaign contribution money. Ideally, full-time government employees will reform jury duty before any of this happens.

Earlier, this piece explained that existing jury duty laws have become major zero-day flaws in the American justice system. That looks like quite a claim, but it has total accuracy. The existing structure of American jury duty obviously violates the Constitutional rights of jurors. Anyone who lost an American jury duty business model trial can very easily say

“ . . . None of my peers would serve on a jury for these mileage and pay rates. That proves that I never got a fair trial!”

and then demand a mistrial to throw away the verdict. Full-time government employees have a really easy way to fix this. They only need to pay highest prevailing minimum wage and highest possible mileage rates to jurors, for all hours worked and all miles driven, with zero tax and zero tax paperwork. In California, the legislator mileage rate of tax-free 53 cents a mile - the latest rate - becomes the required jury duty mileage rate. Government employees must also pay back jury duty wages and mileage. Government employees must also audit all jury duty hiring systems, focusing on the jury duty summons history information, and relevant jury duty service history information, of those people. The auditors must release those audit results, without restriction - immediately. This information will help show whether or not jury duty service operates in a fair way. Lastly, I expect prosecution and punishment for everyone - both inside and outside of government - involved in any sort of jury duty service corruption. Government employees will not successfully hire me for a jury duty temp job until they choose to make these fair, reasonable jury duty reforms, to fix the zero-day flaws of jury duty. In addition, government employees will have an increasingly hard time hiring other Americans as jury duty temp employees. If they drag their feet, it will become impossible soon enough. Americans have every incentive, and plenty of Constitutional rights, to resign from and avoid the present structure of American jury duty. That will destroy the American jury duty trial business model.

It might look like I want the jury duty trial system to completely implode. No way. Since we opened for business in 1789, American civilization has relied on citizen jury duty. I would never volunteer for jury duty, but I would accept my role and responsibility as a juror, and I would do more than my best work in that role. In return, I have expectations of my own. I expect government to see me as a valued partner, working in a job that I did not apply to get. I expect government - as my jury duty employer - to pay me highest possible minimum wage and fair mileage compensation, with zero tax and zero tax paperwork. I expect full jury duty history information disclosure for everyone who ever touched political campaign contribution money. Government, lawyers, and law schools all should have known better. They should have noticed and fixed these problems years ago. They certainly all had - and have - the means, motive, and opportunity to do this, and I expect them to do it. If they decide that they don’t feel like it, they can expect nonviolent jury duty strikes, in California and across the nation. My government employees, the lawyer industry, and the law school industry all completely and exclusively own these problems. Working together, they can easily solve these problems. The choice to do so is theirs alone.