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Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who has delivered major rulings against abortion rights, gun control, and Obamacare, took over as the new chief judge of the New Orleans-based court on Friday. Elrod, appointed by then-President George W. Bush, replaced Circuit Judge Priscilla Richman, a fellow Bush-era appointee who…
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A national judicial conduct committee has upheld a panel’s findings that a now-former federal judge in Alaska engaged in misconduct by having an inappropriate sexualized relationship with one of his law clerks and creating a hostile work environment for court employees. On Thursday, the Judicial Conference’s Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability affirmed a decision…
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Judges on a Washington-based federal appeals court publicly filed on Wednesday that the court should maintain its suspension of their 97-year-old colleague, Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, for another year. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s judicial council, comprised of the court’s active judges, suspended Newman last year after she refused to cooperate…
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The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday referred a judicial misconduct investigation of a federal judge in Alaska to its internal watchdog. This investigation concerns conflicts prosecutors who appeared before the judge may have faced. The department revealed the referral after Alaska’s top federal public defender, Jamie McGrady, requested that the Justice Department’s inspector general…
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Federal prosecutors in Alaska have identified 23 criminal cases where attorneys appearing before a federal judge, who resigned last week amid sexual misconduct accusations, may have had undisclosed conflicts of interest. A top federal prosecutor sent the list in an email on Friday, which Reuters reviewed. This occurred four days after the 9th Circuit Judicial…
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A 97-year-old judge lost her lawsuit on Tuesday after challenging her suspension from a U.S. appellate court due to alleged cognitive and physical impairments. Judge Pauline Newman, who faced suspension from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, argued that the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980, which outlines the process for…
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took at least three additional trips funded by billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow, which he failed to disclose, said Senator Dick Durbin, the Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Thursday. Crow, a Texas businessman and Republican donor, revealed details about Thomas’s travel between 2017 and 2021. This disclosure came…
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In a surprising turn of events, Corey Harris, who gained viral attention earlier this week for driving with a suspended license during a Zoom meeting with a judge, has been found innocent. It appears that he is, in fact, a victim of a clerical error. Harris’s license was suspended in January 2010 due to unpaid…
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It’s been five weeks of the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States, where Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer and lawyer who is at the center of the hush money payment deal, was on the stand all…
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In a dramatic turn of events, Stormy Daniels is set to return to the witness stand in Donald Trump’s hush money trial as the defense launches a full-scale attack on her credibility. The porn actor’s testimony about an alleged sexual encounter with the former president and the subsequent payment she received to remain silent is…
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