Brooklyn Injustice

Noach Dear is at it again, dispensing his own bizarre notion of justice with little regard for either the law or the evidence. As The Post’s Melissa Klein reported Monday, the Brooklyn Supreme Court justice has “demoted” himself back to Civil Court two days a week so that he can hear consumer-debt cases — especially those involving his fellow Orthodox Jews.

And, as he did when he was a sitting Civil Court judge, he routinely dismisses all such cases brought by credit-card companies and small businesses — even when deadbeat defendants admit they owe the money.

Moreover, Klein noted, Orthodox Jews “disproportionately seem to get their cases heard before him instead of other Civil Court judges.”

All this is par for the course for Dear, a Brooklyn machine hack who (as we’ve been noting for years now) by all rights shouldn’t be sitting on any bench.

As a city councilman and later a Taxi & Limousine Commission member, he was dogged by repeated scandals and ethical challenges. He won a Civil Court seat thanks to a backroom deal with corrupt thencounty leader Vito Lopez, despite no sign he’d ever practiced law and a thumbs-down from the Brooklyn Bar Association.

Desperate for a promotion, he volunteered to sit in Criminal Court — only to get booted over his nutty decision that cops had to prove a beverage is alcoholic before serving a summons for drinking in public.

That should have been the end of his judicial career — but he wound up on the Supreme Court bench thanks to another backroom deal: Orthodox leaders agreed to drop their opposition to Brooklyn’s first openly lesbian judicial candidate in exchange for reformers backing Dear. (Nice show of principle, reformers!)

The state’s chief judge took action to rein in Dear’s antics once before. It’s time for a repeat.