Posted on 12/21/2005 6:31:30 AM PST by kristinn
The eight federal judges appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. District Court in Washington meet privately every month in closed-door sessions that other jurists believe are improper and call into question the court's impartiality. "I cannot imagine any legitimate reason for them to meet together once a month, even socially," said one veteran courthouse official familiar with the sessions. "It's not only in bad taste, it certainly has the appearance of impropriety. It's hard to imagine any rationale for these meetings.
Another court official said they "reek with impropriety." Concern among courthouse officials about the meetings, which are described in e-mail addressed monthly to each of the eight judges, comes at a time that Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson is being publicly criticized for selectively assigning criminal cases against friends and associates of Mr. Clinton's to judges the president has appointed. None of the eight Clinton-appointed judges, all of whom were named to the bench between 1994 to 1998, would comment on the meetings or their content.
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Committee member Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, echoed Mr. Hatch's concerns, adding that as a former prosecutor he was "stunned" by the Johnson assignments. He said it "might be necessary" for the committee to investigate the matter to restore the public's confidence.
On Tuesday, Judge Johnson defended her decision not to follow the court's traditional random-assignment process when she assigned the Hubbell and Trie cases to U.S. District Judges Paul L. Friedman and James Robertson, both Clinton appointees. She said the cases were assigned to "highly capable federal judges" and that "politics was not and is never a factor in our case assignments."
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No. He resigned because he's a political hack.
There are many good judges on the bench. But the Clintonistas were able to corrupt the courts like no others. That's why I chuckle when the 'Rats talk about a culture of corruption.
STAR CHAMBERS!!!!
This has got to prove to people how important Pres. Bush being able to get true Constitutionalists in the Courts is.
Ya see, this is why I'm sooo pissed at the pubs and howl at their wimpness. Hey! Thanks Jeffy, I'm real confident now...jerk.
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