NJ Judge Resigns Over His Film About Obama's 'Deal With The Devil'

A municipal court judge in New Jersey resigned this week after the state Supreme Court advised him not to promote his new movie -- a satire about President Obama's life that depicts him making a deal with the devil in order to become a communist dictator.

"It put me in an impossible position," the ex-judge, Kenneth Del Vecchio, told TPM in an interview today. "I had two choices: Either I could remain as a judge and shut up and have no free speech rights whatsoever ... or I had to resign."

Del Vecchio, a prolific filmmaker and author, produced, wrote and stars in "O.B.A.M. Nude," a movie about a coke-addled college student who sells his soul to the devil in order to impose his socialist will on the country. Satan starts him out by hooking him up with the "Righteous Reverend," a "close friend" of the devil's.

"Satan tutors him on political points," Del Vecchio describes. "So he can trick the masses by a mantra of hope and change."

The movie was set to be released this week. So Del Vecchio, who had been a judge for only four months, wrote an inquiry to a Supreme Court's advisory committee asking if he was allowed to give interviews and otherwise promote O.B.A.M. Nude and two other films he made. The committee advised that such promotion would be "improper or create an appearance of impropriety."

Although the committee's opinions aren't binding, Del Vecchio submitted his resignation.

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You can see the trailer at the link above.

Pathetic.

fuck made him a judge??

Someone like that has NO BUSINESS making decisions regarding justice.

Trust me, being a right wing tool has never been a bar to becoming a judge in this country.

I've spent a great deal of time as a GAL volunteer and have met some decent and not so decent judges. All of them were conservatives (FL), but none of them had ever stooped this low politically. Plenty of hanky-panky, but nothing like this.

there's your problem, right there.