Celebrated Constitutional Lawyer Bruce Fein Helps Protect My First Amendment Rights
Challenging the Star Chamber-Like Secrecy of the Family Courts
Family Courts are so corrupt, even fellow jurists call them “the Sewer.” Secretive like the Star Chamber of seventeenth-century England, where dissidents were persecuted and disappeared, they can easily be weaponized to the same purpose: to retaliate against whistleblowers and dissidents, by taking their children. This happened to former CIA agents exposing the government torture program, and more recently to Jennifer Weisselberg, after she cooperated with authorities looking into the Trump Organization’s finances. Or it can happen to anybody. Family Court keeps each person isolated from the other, because the first most empowering thing for victims is to know what is happening to them—and lots of them!
These “Anti-Courts” exploit the general public trust bestowed on the judiciary to operate a hidden, criminal enterprise that auctions off 100,000 children a year to their torture, battery, rape, sex trafficking, and murder for profits to the tune of 50 to 175 billion dollars a year. A “culture of psychopathy” underlies this child theft operation, which sometimes removes children simply to deprive them of a loving and capable parent. Bruce Fein, Esq., one of the most celebrated constitutional lawyers in the country, who impeached three U.S. presidents, has bravely stepped up to defend my right to expose Family Courts for the centers of organized crime that they are. He will also help guide the impeachment of Chief Family Court Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca, and now even the New York Times has shown interest!
Please read the muckraking article below, bravely written when most witnesses are decimated before they can speak, and journalists lose their lives:
STAR CHAMBER EXPOSED: RENOWNED YALE PSYCHIATRIST SUES TO EXPOSE NJ FAMILY COURTS
Dr. Bandy Lee Slaps NJ Judge and Guardian Ad Litem with Federal Lawsuit over Gag Order and Free Speech Violations
Mar 25, 2025
Star Chamber Exposed: Yale psychiatrist sues NJ family court over gag order, exposing child abuse cover-ups and judicial corruption.
A top forensic psychiatrist has filed a bombshell federal lawsuit accusing a New Jersey family court judge and guardian ad litem of violating her constitutional rights to silence criticism of court corruption.
Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a former Yale and Harvard professor and renowned violence expert, sued Bergen County Family Court Judge Michael Antoniewicz and guardian ad litem Evelyn Nissirios.
Lee says the duo trampled her free speech rights and weaponized the courts to protect judicial misconduct in her sister’s high-stakes custody battle.
STAR CHAMBER EXPOSED: NOTORIOUS NJ DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
“Family courts are notorious for discounting claims of domestic violence against women and children,” Lee wrote in her lawsuit. “Transparency plays a pivotal role in deterring judicial abuses.”
New Jersey Guardian ad Litem Evelyn Nissirios [dozens of litigants complained to Dr. Lee that she permanently separated them from their children to give them to their abusers, while falsely telling them that their loving parent abandoned them and no longer loved them.]
According to Lee’s 15-page federal complaint, Nissirios sought a bogus Temporary Protective Order (TPO) against Lee on December 5, 2024. Judge Antoniewicz granted the order, forcing Lee to remove all online posts criticizing Nissirios — posts that included explosive allegations of perjury, child endangerment, and collusion with an abusive father, Alan T. Chan.
“The TPO falsely declared, ‘By consent, Bandy Lee shall remove all posts regarding [Evelyn Nissirios],’” Lee wrote.
But Lee never consented — her attorney allegedly did it without authority, and the judge muzzled Lee when she tried to object in court.
“The Court clerk muted her microphone,” Lee’s complaint states.
Lee said she submitted a sworn declaration disputing the so-called consent. Her attorney, Tricia Lindsay, never refuted Lee’s sworn claim. Instead, Judge Antoniewicz “prohibited Plaintiff from reiterating the twin constitutional defenses” that she never consented and that her posts were fully protected by the First Amendment.
“This is prior restraint — the worst First Amendment violation a court can commit,” said Lee’s attorney Bruce Fein. “The Constitution does not stop at the family court’s door.”
At a January 10, 2025 hearing, Antoniewicz held Lee in contempt and fined her $5,381.25 in attorney’s fees payable to Nissirios. Lee was also ordered to stay silent or face jail.
“Dr. Lee has been chilled against writing new posts about Co-Defendant Nissirios in violation of the First Amendment for fear of another court finding of contempt and possible jail time,” the complaint states.
STAR CHAMBER EXPOSED: THE CASE THAT SPARKED THE WAR
Lee became involved after witnessing what she called “heinous abuses” against her sister Patricia Lee in the Bergen County family court. In her censored writings, Lee accused Nissirios and the judge of colluding with Chan, a father with a history of domestic violence.
“GAL has tried multiple times to harm Patricia Lee physically — in addition to raiding her in the most violent fashion possible to rip her crying, screaming, and clinging children away from her,” Lee wrote in a post scrubbed by court order. “GAL is now under criminal charges for her first life-threatening assault.”
Lee blasted the judge’s decisions: “You barred a defendant from choosing her own support for three years — as you systematically isolated, bullied, and tried to break her psychologically.”
She accused the court of ignoring psychiatric evidence that deemed Patricia Lee a fit mother and instead relying on a guardian ad litem who “lied to this Court over three hundred fifty times.”
According to Lee, Chan was initially under a restraining order for seriously injuring the children. But the court handed him full custody anyway, cutting Patricia off from her children for three years.
“Everyone who has seen photos of my sister’s children has commented that they look like they have been interned in a concentration camp,” Lee wrote. “They stopped growing. Both are now the shortest students in their respective classes.”
STAR CHAMBER EXPOSED: A CONSTITUTIONAL SHOWDOWN
Lee’s lawsuit seeks a federal ruling declaring the gag order unconstitutional and wiping out the $5,381.25 fine. She demands nominal damages and attorney’s fees.
Citing New York Times Company v. United States (Pentagon Papers), Lee argues the order is an illegal prior restraint.
She also points to Elrod v. Burns, where the Supreme Court ruled that even temporary free speech suppression causes irreparable harm.
“An unconstitutional court order like an unconstitutional statute cannot serve as the predicate to sanction a violation,” the lawsuit says.
Lee is represented by Fein, a constitutional scholar who served as Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, and New Jersey attorney Demetrios Stratis.
EXPOSING THE ‘BIGGEST CHILD TRAFFICKING BUSINESS’
In her censored post, Lee unleashed on the court system: “Family Courts are not real courts — and their whole criminal enterprise would crumble if the world only knew the truth of their atrocities.”
She accused family courts of running “the largest child trafficking business in the country,” supplying “pedophilic sex rings and child pornography production.”
“Judges and guardians ad litem ‘fix’ the cases through their own criminal activity, which they conceal under ‘court seals,’” Lee wrote. “The practice has become so lucrative, there are hardly exceptions: almost no victim child goes to the right parent.”
Lee added: “Nearly a thousand children have been murdered through this arrangement, and mothers are dying at alarming rates, just as my sister almost died recently from GAL’s harassment.”
STAR CHAMBER EXPOSED: FIGHTING FOR TRANSPARENCY AND JUSTICE
Lee’s lawsuit highlights a growing national backlash against family court secrecy. The United Nations has documented the global trend of courts dismissing domestic violence and child abuse claims in custody cases.
“The tendency to dismiss the history of domestic violence extends to cases where mothers and/or children themselves have brought forward credible allegations,” the U.N. reported in 2023.
Fein said the case is about more than one family. “This is a battle for the Constitution, for free speech, and against judicial tyranny.”
The case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Lee and Fein vowed to appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
“I refuse to be intimidated,” Lee said. “Sunlight is the best disinfectant. It’s time to expose these courts for what they really are.”
(The original article can be found here: https://luthmann.substack.com/p/star-chamber-exposed-renowned-yale.)
*All legal nonfeasance, malfeasance, and misfeasance connected to this case trace back to Chief Family Court Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca. Evelyn Nissirios is her disciple, and Michael Antoniewicz her subordinate judge. Please join our tremendous momentum to impeach Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca — which has the potential finally to fix the hopelessly corrupt Family Courts!
Bandy, I'm very upset that you and your sister are being put through this assault, magnified by the very court that is 'supposed' to protect children. I'm extremely distressed for them and I'm holding out hope for some reversal of fortune. If there is any way we, who support you, can add our weight to your lawsuit, or if it would help if we simply spread the word, please advise us.
I will personally understand if you have to stop the Friday meetings to attend to these other hugely important matters. But whatever happens, I feel confident when speaking for others, you and your sister have our unequivocal support. We are horrified to learn of this unforgivable criminality in a court system intended to make Solomon-like decisions in families where there is conflict and abuse.