Promoting adequate checks and balances among America's three branches of federal government;


Striving to protect the "Fifth Estate" comprised of federal government whistleblowers, including EEO complainants; and


Endeavoring to preserve whatever right they have to jury trial as guaranteed by the Seventh Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
ABOUT US

In direct response, arguably to judicial activism,
Congress is regularly petitioned to clarify, expand,
and/or strengthen the protection it affords federal
workers and certain others from employment related
discrimination, retaliation, and harassment.  The 3.5.7
Commission was created to consider whether  
legislative relief that Congress provides and should
provide these employees is undermined by court
decisions rendered without the benefit of jury trials.  
National Judicial Conduct and Disability Law Project,
Inc. (NJCDLP) is proud to facilitate its efforts.  

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more about the Commission's
founding sponsors:
Jury trials may be expensive and time-consuming, but
the jury, local and populist, is a counterweight to central
authority and is as important an element in the
constitutional balance as the two houses of Congress,
the three branches of government and the federal
system itself.

Cases Keep Flowing In, But The Jury Pool Is Idle;
Adam Liptak, “The New York Times”, 4/30/2007.
OUR CHALLENGE

Federal government whistleblowers, including Title VII claimants, are essential to America's
governmental system of checks and balances — particularly Congress' executive and judicial
branch oversight.  The entire federal workforce included nearly three million, non-military
employees in 2006 according to the most recent annual report on the subject by the U. S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission.  Those among them with work related complaints of
discrimination, retaliation, and/or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, and/or national
origin can usually pursue the matter through private civil litigation, subject to applicable time
limitations.  In exercising that option, these public sector employees join the thousands of
employment discrimination plaintiffs who file related cases in federal court each year.  Many
accordingly become subject to the procedural device known as “summary judgment” which the
New York Times recently noted has pushed “. . . judges right up to and sometimes across the
constitutional lines of determining the facts (of a case) for themselves.”

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"It is time to consider whether
meaningful citizen oversight of
American government is being
cut off at the pass."

Reports of strictly enforced taboos by the bar and the bench against lawyers
criticizing American government, particularly the judiciary; the perception of
bias against pro se litigants, arguably backed by statistics; a prospect of
federal government whistleblowers being improperly shielded from jury trials;
judges sustaining multi-million dollar judgments against members of the free
press that criticize other judges – all suggesting the possibility that meaningful
citizen oversight of American government is being cut off at the pass.

    Michael  R. McCray, Esq.
    The 3.5.7 Commission Chairperson
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the Honorable John Conyers
(D-Mich), Chairperson of the
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