picture on the front of each bill), had just replaced long term justice Roger Taney. "Bradley vs Fisher" was a court case filed by a trial judge against a lawyer who insulted him in the courtroom. It resulted in the lawyer being permanently barred from practicing in federal court. The Supreme Court took the opportunity to update the Rules of the Court to grant itself sovereign immunity. The Court said it was a minor issue. However, Sovereign Immunity (think King George) is the reason the colonists fought the Revolutionary War, and a change of this magnitude should require a change to constitutional law (specifically, Article II of the Constitution concerning the establishment of the Judiciary). Instead, the Judiciary placed itself above the law. There is further proof of this in 28 U.S. §2072, where Congress allows Rules of the Court to supersede federal law. In the hierarchy of law, (The World Court, national law and state law) Rules are made to guide the departments of state government. They exist to effectuate the spirit and intent of the law, and if they disagree with law, they must be dropped. Here is that law: Rules of the Court are updated annually by a committee of judges, with oversight provided by Congress. The above law can be found at the beginning of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a copy of which is found here (pg. 7 of 137): Link Stump v. Sparkman (1978) One of the leading decisions on judicial immunity is Stump v. Sparkman. In 1971, Judge Harold D. Stump granted a mother's petition to have a tubal ligation performed on her 15-year-old daughter, whom the mother alleged was "somewhat retarded". The daughter was told that the surgery was to remove her appendix. In 1975 the daughter, going by her then-married name of Linda Sparkman, learned that she had been sterilized. She sued the judge. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the judge could not be sued, because the decision was made in the course of his duties. In that regard, it was irrelevant that the judge's decision may have been contrary to law and morally reprehensible. Harris v. Harvey (1979) Judges usually, but not always, receive immunity from being sued. One exception where a judge was sued and lost is Harris v. Harvey (1979). Sylvester Harris, an African-American police lieutenant in Racine, Wisconsin, was attacked in a variety of ways