New York Judge Resigns amid Investigation into Alleged Jan. 6 Role

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Sep 29, 2024 at 5:48 AM EDT | Updated Sep 29, 2024 at 10:54 AM EDT


An upstate-New York judge has resigned from his judicial positions amid an investigation into his attendance at Donald Trump's January 6, 2021, rally in Washington, D.C.

Judge Donald R. Spaccio, who served as a village and town court judge in Montour Falls, Schuyler County, submitted his resignation earlier in September, according to documents from the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Judge Spaccio had been notified in April that the commission was investigating complaints related to his conduct, which included attending the Jan. 6 rally, as well as shouting at law enforcement when officers asked him to remove a propane cannon from his property, and yelling profanities at a town code enforcement officer during a dispute.

Spaccio told the New York Law Journal that he went to Trump's rally because he felt there were a lot of things wrong with the country.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/new-york-judge-resigns-amid-investigation-alleged-jan-6-role-1960883

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1. Spaccio told the...that he went to Trump's rally because he felt there were a lot of things wrong with the country.

Yeah, and he's one of them.

[KS Toronado]

3. He could have been more honest and mentioned the Heritage Foundation.

[et tu]

2. seems like he waited

until the last minute to finally do the right thing and resign.
i try so hard to understand these types of actions but
weird is just weird.

[republianmushroom]

4. 44 months ass hole, 44 months.

[wolfie001]

5. What a weasel

[bottomofthehill]

6. No one hates the J-6 crowd more than I do

But in the article it says he went to the trump rally but there is no evidence he was at the Capitol. If he was at the BS rally on the ellipse, shame on him, but if he did not go to the Capitol, I am not seeing it as a reason to resign. I would never vote for him but, … as to his other actions, at home in NY, they may be better cause to step down.

[Skittles]

10. um

"....shouting at law enforcement when officers asked him to remove a propane cannon from his property, and yelling profanities at a town code enforcement officer during a dispute."

does this sound like someone who makes good decisions?

[bottomofthehill]

14. That would go to the end of my comments

To his other actions.

[Skittles]

17. he shouldn't have been allowed to "step down"

his fascist ass should have been FIRED

[Warpy]

15. That would depend on where it was fired and its intended use

If he could document being a Punkin Chunkin hobbyist who wanted to open a new category of Chunker, the current ones being trebuchets and air cannons, that could be forgiven as long is it was geing stored properly and was being fired only at a range that had been approved for such activities.

Otherwise, HIzzoner needs to step down and have hurtful things confiscated until he manages to get his screws tightened.

[Trueblue1968]

7. What an asshole

[Jean Genie]

8. Uh huh

And of course never figured out that one of the biggest things wrong with our country was - and is ... Trump!

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Listen, I've gone to D.C. over decades because I believed (and still do) that there

were "a lot of things wrong with the country". Examples: Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights, invasion of Iraq, 2016 election of Trump, etc. But hey! I didn't trespass into the Capitol, not once. Didn't break windows. Didn't harm Capitol Police. Didn't smear feces on the walls. Didn't have the goal of harming even Republican lawmakers.

He's a freakin' judge! Who should know better than John Q. Public.

[Novara]

11. This biased fuck got to make decisions o the bench for four years?

He'd have stayed if there wasn't an investigation, I'd bet.

[Clouds Passing]

12. "Alot of things wrong with the country" like you Spaccio?

You can’t fix you, when you’re that messed up.

[TommieMommy]

13. What a piece of 💩

[Pinback]

16. A propane cannon?

Those things are probably illegal in most residential neighborhoods. This guy sounds like a real piece of work.

[MerrilyMerrily]

18. There was a NYT series about upstate NY town and village judges

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/nyregion/25courts.html
"In Tiny Courts of NY, Abuses of Law and Power" - September 25, 2006

I don't have access now (dropped my subscription) but I read the series at the time. I had lived in a tiny town jurisdiction for 8 years by then, but I had not known that there was no educational requirement for candidates at all, but there WAS a "judging for dummies" manual provided to the winners, which many "judges" didn't bother to read completely. The series provided several examples of judges making stuff up, doing all kinds of things that were illegal EXCEPT for them, and blatantly treating "certain" people with egregious unfairness. The articles concluded that the state judicial system was in the process of figuring out how to put a stop to all that.

Just a couple of weeks after the series came out, a lady knocked on my door to tell me she was running for town judge. I don't recall her occupation, but she was not a lawyer. I asked her if she had read the NYT articles. She looked like she had swallowed a lemon and said yes, then she left. She was elected town judge a few weeks after that.

This guy is not an anomaly, but the fact that he actually got in trouble bad enough to make him resign, for acting in a way that used to have no recourse, cheers me up.

[UpInArms]

21. Here is an archive link to that article

https://archive.ph/Nsw6w

A woman in Malone, N.Y., was not amused. A mother of four, she went to court in that North Country village seeking an order of protection against her husband, who the police said had choked her, kicked her in the stomach and threatened to kill her. The justice, Donald R. Roberts, a former state trooper with a high school diploma, not only refused, according to state officials, but later told the court clerk, “Every woman needs a good pounding every now and then.”

A black soldier charged in a bar fight near Fort Drum became alarmed when his accuser described him in court as “that colored man.” But the village justice, Charles A. Pennington, a boat hauler and a high school graduate, denied his objections and later convicted him. “You know,” the justice said, “I could understand if he would have called you a Negro, or he had called you a nigger.”

And several people in the small town of Dannemora were intimidated by their longtime justice, Thomas R. Buckley, a phone-company repairman who cursed at defendants and jailed them without bail or a trial, state disciplinary officials found. Feuding with a neighbor over her dog’s running loose, he threatened to jail her and ordered the dog killed.

“I just follow my own common sense,” Mr. Buckley, in an interview, said of his 13 years on the bench. “And the hell with the law.”

[MerrilyMerrily]

22. Thanks!

[Xipe Totec]

19. He exhibited bad judgement. nt

[Grins]

20. "...his attendance at Trump's January 6, 2021, RALLY"

“Rally,” Gracie…?

How about seditious riot?
Attack on Democracy?
Attack on police?
Attempted Coup d’Etat?