The Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States and the Eleventh Circuit
in particular have developed the perfect mechanism for disposing of
complaints of judicial misconduct and avoiding public scrutiny.
Complaints of judicial misconduct can come in principally three forms:

• Judicial Misconduct Disability Act Complaint, 28 U.S.C.
  §§351


• Petition for Mandamus


• Direct Appeal

Nonpublished or Secret Opinions

The first hurdle to public scrutiny is that the results of the above are beyond public scrutiny because the results are not published and released. The Courts give themselves permission not to publish opinions with respect to mandamus and direct appeals. Judicial Misconduct Act Complaints are confidential by law. The public can not scrutinize what it does not knows exists.

Isolation

A litigant can initiate complaints through all three methods. The Eleventh Circuit will claim that the methods are mutually exclusive. This is a perfect strategy. Having made this claim of mutual exclusiveness, the Eleventh
Circuit is now free to dispose of valid complaints on this procedural
ground. There is no law that says the methods are mutually exclusive.

Valid complaints in the form of mandamus and the Judicial Misconduct Act
will be summarily dismissed on the "plausible" ground that they are properly
handled under the direct appeal. These summary dismissals, when viewed
in isolation can appear to be plausible.

Herding

Herding or Shepherding for the purpose of this website means guiding a
complaint of judicial misconduct towards a particular method. The
Eleventh Circuit guides the other forms of judicial complaints towards the
direct appeal method. Having guided the other forms of judicial
misconduct towards direct appeal, the Eleventh Circuit is now free to ignore
the complaint of judicial misconduct altogether by rendering unpublished opinion or by basing this opinion upon facts that are directly contradicted by the record. The reader must bear in mind that the only thing he or she knows is what the opinion says even if you could get your hands on the unpublished opinion.

This Blog is only a sample of the whole story, please see mmason.freeshell.org/methods.htm It is impossible to overstate the level of dishonesty and lawlessness on the part of Judge Donald L. Graham and his enablers. What you will find is a cesspool of injustice in that Federal Judges use unpublished opinions to ignore facts, manufacture facts, lie, and all manner of other dishonest measures to achieve the desired outcome. mmason.freeshell.org/methods.htm fully documents each and every assertion put forth here.