Judge Tim Philpot

In his fictional autobiography, Judge Timothy Philpot discusses many real life events both outside and within his courtroom including descriptions of actual cases. Listed   below   are ten groups of disguised characters and clues about their actual identities. 1.   “Dr. T” and Veronique   “Dr. T” is a Zambian man whose full name the judge had difficulty pronouncing. He is denounced in court by his first wife Veronique who "told everyone he had beaten her, cussed her and been unfaithful to her. “In Africa, she would have been thrown out with the trash...She got her child-support increased by proving that Dr. T. had not been forthcoming about all of his income. “Dr. T” and Veronique have a twelve-year-old daughter Vanna. Sassy ex-wife Veronique is empowered by the Judge to assert her rights “But what Veronique really wanted was an opportunity to stand up in front of fifty people and tell everyone what a lousy father and husband he was. Again." 2. ...

In addition to his courtroom outbursts, Judge Philpot has a persistent tendency to discuss his ongoing cases in public outside the courtroom, for no better purpose than to vent his own frustrations at societal decay. These lapses seem to contravene several canons of judicial ethics. One recent example was a talk he gave to the Francis Asbury Society on 8/25/2016 regarding a couple who appeared in his court the day before. Judge Philpot recounted how he castigated the husband for not seeing his five-year-old son for a 32-day span because the man was too pre-occupied by his work and girlfriend. In Judge Philpot's opinion there was no reason for the couple to be divorcing except for the existence of the girlfriend.   The case resembles the circumstances of the frustrated father who posted the accompanying video clip. Judge Philpot seems to revel in the “Jerry Springer” environment in his courtroom but should bear in mind that these are families in distress. Family courts shoul...

Amazon This book would have been better titled “Four Funerals and a Wedding”. Amongst other things, Judge Philpot’s fictional autobiography is a thinly veiled racist diatribe. It’s instructive to compare it with his earlier work (Fords Wonderful World of Golf) which describes his dysfunctional upbringing at the hands of his abusive Televangelist father Ford Philpot, and has an unmistakable pervading theme of repressed homoeroticism. The golf-centric book has relatively innocuous racist expressions such as the mocking of ant-apartheid demonstrators who attempt to boycott South African golfers, and even these are balanced by mollifications such as the comically bizarre claim that the young Philpot’s parents abruptly yanked him from a boarding school on catching wind of someone at the establishment uttering the “N” word. In his latest book, the kid gloves are off. The court cases described are rife with patronizing stereotypes of minorities including promiscuous Afri...

Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) February 6, 1998 Section: Main News Edition: Final Page: A1 HARD-FOUGHT BILL ON RACISM, DEATH PENALTY PASSES SENATE Angie Muhs, Herald-Leader Frankfort Bureau FRANKFORT - Defendants in death penalty cases could ask judges to decide whether prosecutors were motivated by racial concerns under a bill that passed the state Senate after two hours of contentious debate yesterday. In arguing their cases, each defendant could use statewide statistical evidence, such as a 1993 study that found that blacks who killed whites were more likely than other defendants to be sentenced to death in Kentucky. The measure was sponsored by Sen. Gerald Neal, D-Louisville, the Senate's only black member, who said after the vote that other senators were using "scare tactics" to attack the bill. Sen. Tim Philpot, R-Lexington, argued that it was "ludicrous" to ask a judge to decide before a trial whether race played a factor in a decision to s...

Judge Philpot has a dream – the unification of (his) church and the government. This seems to be aodds with the constitution and laws he is paid to uphold. It is probably also self serving considering the millions of dollars in government grants distributed by the non-profit groups he leads. He explained this grand vision during a recent interview: Tim: "Yes; yes. My ultimate dream—and I’ve become cynical and skeptical—so, I don’t think it’s going to happen—but my ultimate dr eam is that the church could eliminate the social services / the church could eliminate the foster children—the church would become the system. That’s a big dream. But I’ve got to believe it can, at least, happen in some places with some people; and that’s part of my life." FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript Episode: Here Comes the Judge, Guest: Tim Philpot, From the series: Irretrievably Broken (Day 3 of 3), Air date: November 18, 2016

In a recent radio interview, Judge Timothy Philpot stated that the greatest barrier to race relations in America is the fact that blacks and whites do not pray in the same churches. Leaving aside the fact that this discussion was in the context of the Charleston church shooting, Judge Philpot seems to forget that many of the involved parties do not pray in any churches. Even if communal interracial worship is the answer, it is unclear how that is to be achieved.   Are African-American to be bussed into the suburbs and squeezed into empty mega-church pews or will soccer moms be raising the rafters with gospel songs with inner city congregations? The logistic problems highlight an actual cause of racial tension. Black and white tend to be separated not just geographically, but also by gaps in opportunity. That gap is getting smaller and there are plenty of poor white people too, but Judge Philpot’s solution is naïve like many of his causes.   In general, black slaves w...