Cuckoo court karma
Call it the karma of the courts: For every bizarre cause, there’s a New York judge out there ready to back it to the hilt.
Case in point: As last year waned, a Brooklyn Supreme Court justice blocked the expulsion of a faux-academic CUNY center run by ex-cons, for ex-cons, at taxpayer expense.
The Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions had a six-year run at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn before the college’s current president, William Pollard, decided to pull the plug.
Pollard conducted a probe and found the group was a convict’s con game — offering no added academic value.
Among its initiatives: seeking a $2.4 million grant to “sentence” 300 drug convicts to attend Medgar Evers rather than go to jail. (No word about what the seri ous students thought about that.)
And a pork-funded study of whether proposed state laws — including criminal statutes — were racist.
Pollard, unimpressed, gave the cons the boot. But NuLeadership sued the school — and a Brooklyn judge booted them right back in.
No surprise there: City courts are a bog of political lunacy. Cases have to make it up the food chain, to higher courts, for common sense to even rear its head.
The ex-cons have another day in court Friday, and the order barring their expulsion could be extended until February.
It would be better by far if these cases went straight to the appellate level, skipping the trial stage altogether — this perhaps being the only chance for such cases to get a sane hearing.
No such luck, of course.


