CORRESPONDENCE WITH U.S. SENATE
& JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
For correspondence pertaining to FEDERAL JUDICIAL SELECTION,
see
Judicial
Selection -- Federal
For correspondence pertaining to FEDERAL JUDICIAL DISCIPLINE,
see below & substantiating
Test Case-Federal (Mangano)
Federal Judicial Discipline & Removal
2001
CJA's July 3, 2001 letter to Senator Charles Schumer, Chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee's Courts Subcommittee --
RE: Statement for the Record of the June 26, 2001 hearing, 'Should Ideology
Matter?: Judicial Nominations 2001', held by the Senate Judiciary
Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts"
[SEE pages 16-18 and referred-to
exhibits N & O]
Exhibit A-1: CJA's May 27, 1996 letter to Senator Hatch, Chairman/Senate
Judiciary Committee
Exhibit A-2: CJA's May 22, 1996 letter to Chief Counsel/Subcommittee on
Administrative Oversight and the Courts
Exhibit A-3: CJA's March 21, 2001 letter to President George W. Bush
Exhibit A-4: March 26, 2001 letter from Bradford Berenson, Associate Counsel
to the President
Exhibit B-1: CJA's May 18, 1992 letter to Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell
Exhibit B-2: CJA's Letter to the Editor, "Untrustworthy Ratings",
NYT, 7/17/92
Exhibit C: CJA's October 31, 1995 letter to Patricia Hynes, Second Circuit
Representative/ABA Standing Committee
on
Federal Judiciary
Exhibit
D-1 Senator Strom Thurmond's June 13, 1996 letter to CJA
Exhibit D-2: pp. 4-5 of Senate Judiciary Committee's May 21, 1996 hearing on
"The Role of the ABA in the Judicial
Selection Process"
Exhibit E:
CJA's April 26, 1996 letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit F:
Chairman Hatch's June 12, 1996 letter to CJA
Exhibit G-1: CJA's June 18, 1996 letter to Chairman Hatch
Exhibit
G-2: CJA's June 26, 1996 fax to Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit H: Pages 790-1 of transcript of Senate Judiciary Committee's
June 25, 1996 "hearing" on the confirmation of
Lawrence Kahn's nomination to the District Court for the Northern
District of New York
Exhibit I-1: CJA's June 28, 1996 letter to Chairman Hatch
Exhibit I-2:
Certified mail/return receipts to/from Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
& Senate Minority Leader Tom
Daschle, as
well as fax coversheets and transmittal receipts
Exhibit J-1: CJA's July 15, 1996 faxed memo to Senate Judiciary
Committee counsel
Exhibit J-2: CJA's July 15, 1996 fax to Legislative Assistant to Senate
Majority Leader Lott
Exhibit J-3: CJA's July 15, 1996 fax to Legislative Assistant to Senate
Minority Leader Daschle
Exhibit J-4: CJA's July 15, 1996 letter to Chief Counsel/Senator Herbert Kohl
Exhibit J-5: CJA's July 16, 1996 letter to staff/Senate Minority Leader Daschle
Exhibit
J-6: CJA's itemized phone bill
Exhibit
J-7: descriptive chronology of CJA's Senate contacts, July 15-July 16,
1996
Exhibit
K: July 15, 1996 memo to Senate Judiciary Committee from Bill Van Allen
& Faye Rabenda
Exhibit L: Senate confirmation of Lawrence Kahn to District Court/NDNY
Exhibit M-1: CJA's July 30, 1998 letter to Leah Belaire/Investigative
Counsel/Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit M-2: CJA's August 3, 1998 letter to staff/Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit M-3: CJA's August 19, 1998 letter to Leah Belaire/Investigative
Counsel/Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit N-1: "Without Merit: The Empty Promise of Judicial Discipline",
by Elena Sassower, The Long Term
View
(Massachusetts School of Law) (summer 1997)
Exhibit N-2:
CJA's March 10, 1998 memorandum
to House Judiciary Committee
Exhibit N-3:
CJA's March 23, 1998 memorandum to House Judiciary Committee
Exhibit O-1:
CJA's statement for inclusion in the record of the House
Judiciary Committee's June 11, 1998
"Oversight
Hearing of the Administration and Operation of the Federal Judiciary"
Exhibit O-2: Coversheet to Compendium substantiating CJA's s statement
Exhibit O-3:
CJA's June 19, 1998 memo to counsel/House Judiciary Committee
CJA's July 11, 2001 letter to Senate Judiciary Committee members --
"RE: CJA's request for your public support for hearings to be held on judicial
discipline and removal by the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on
Administrative Oversight and the Courts -- including threshold hearings on the
1993 Report of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal"
CJA's July 11, 2001 letter to Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle &
Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott -- "RE: (1) CJA's invitation of your
response to its July 3, 2001 letter to Senator Schumer, including at the
upcoming hearing on 'important issues relating to the judicial nominating
process' by his Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts; and (2)
CJA's request for your public endorsement of Senator Schumer's holding of
hearings on federal judicial discipline and removal, including threshold
hearings on the 1993 Report of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline
and Removal or, if for some reason such is not forthcoming, your prompt
arrangements for hearings on the National Commission's 1993 Report by some other
appropriate congressional body"
CJA's
July 14, 2001 letter to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
-- "RE: Request for your Senatorial Endorsement of Hearings on Federal
Judicial Discipline and Removal by the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee
on Administrative Oversight and the Courts -- Including Threshold Hearings on
the 1993 Report of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal"
2004
CJA's February 13, 2004 memorandum
to Senator Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member/Senate Judiciary Committee and to
Senator Joseph Lieberman, Ranking Member/Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
-- "RE: The Supreme Court's impeachable repudiation of congressionally-imposed
obligations of disqualification & disclosure under 28 U.S.C. 455 and disregard
for the single recommendation addressed to it by the 1993 Report of the National
Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal that it consider establishing an
internal mechanism to review judicial misconduct complaints against its
Justices"
CJA's February 12, 2004 letter to Chief Justice William
Rehnquist
SEE
Test
Case - Federal (Mangano)
CJA's February 17, 2004 memorandum to Senator Leahy & Senator Lieberman
CJA's July
31, 2001 letter to House Judiciary Committee counsel
CJA's
September 4, 2001 letter to House Judiciary Committee counsel
CJA's July
30, 2002 letter to House Judiciary Committee counsel
CJA's July 31,
2002 letter to House Judiciary Committee counsel
CJA's June
4, 2003 letter/memo to Senator Kennedy (at pp. 5-10)
CJA's
June 4, 2003 transmitting memo to Senators Leahy, Schumer, Feingold & Edwards
2008
CJA's May 13, 2008 Memo to Senate Leadership
CJA's June 19, 2008 letter to Rachana Bhowmik, Legislative Counsel -- Office of
U.S. Senator Barack Obama --
"RE: STATUS OF YOUR REVIEW OF CJA’S MAY 13,
2008 MEMO entitled “Request for Congressional Hearings on the Breyer
Committee’s Report on the Implementation of the Judicial Conduct and Disability
Act of 1980; & Pending Same, Deferment of Congressional Action on Senate and
House Bills, S. 1638 and H.R. 3753, to Raise Judicial Salaries 29%”
CJA's June 19, 2008 letter to Adam J. Barker, Legislative Correspondent --
Office of U.S. Senator John McCain --
"RE: STATUS OF YOUR REVIEW OF CJA’S MAY 13,
2008 MEMO entitled “Request for Congressional Hearings on the Breyer
Committee’s Report on the Implementation of the Judicial Conduct and Disability
Act of 1980; & Pending Same, Deferment of Congressional Action on Senate and
House Bills, S. 1638 and H.R. 3753, to Raise Judicial Salaries 29%”
June 19, 2008 e-mail from Adam Barker (2:31 p.m.) --"Subject: RE: Status of
Your Review of CJA's May 13, 2008 memo -- Federal Judicial Discipline & Judicial
Salaries"
CJA's June 19, 2008 e-mail to Adam Barker (2:40 p.m.) -- "Subject: Thank
you, kindly -- RE: Status of Your Review of CJA's May 13, 2008 memo -- Federal
Judicial Discipline & Judicial Salaries"
June 19, 2008 e-mail from Senator McCain's General Counsel, Lee Dunn (4:09
p.m.) -- "Subject: FW: Status of Your Review of CJA's May 13, 2008 memo --
Federal Judicial Discipline & Judicial Salaries"
CJA's June 19, 2008 e-mail to Lee Dunn (4:28 p.m.) -- "Subject: Thank you
for your prompt acknowledgment -- RE: Status of Your Review of CJA's May 13,
2008 memo -- Federal Judicial Discipline & Judicial Salaries"
CJA's
June 25, 2008 memo toSenate Judiciary Committee Leadership
--
"RE:
STATUS OF YOUR REVIEW: CJA's May 13, 2008 MEMO entitled 'Request
for Congressional Hearings on the Breyer Committee's Report on the
Implementation of the Judicial
Conduct and Disability Act of 1980; &, Pending Same, Deferment of Congressional Action on Senate
and House Bills, S. 1638 and H.R. 3753, to Raise Judicial Salaries 29%'"
CJA's June 26, 2008 transmittal memo to...Senator Charles Grassley -- "RE: STATUS OF YOUR REVIEW...: "
CJA's June 26, 2008 to Senator Obama's Legislative Counsel Rachana Bhowmik
-- "RE: Your promised follow-up with Senate Majority Leader Reid & Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy: CJA's May 13, 2008 memo for hearings on
federal judicial discipline & judicial pay"
CJA's June 26, 2008 to Senator McCain's General Counsel Lee Dunn -- "RE:
Request for follow-up with Senate Minority Leader McConnell & Senate Judiciary
Committee Ranking Member Specter: CJA's May 13, 2008 memo for hearings on
federal judicial discipline & judicial pay"
NOTE: For correspondence to New York Home-State Senators Charles Schumer& Hillary Rodham Clinton
pertaining to New York State judicial discipline, see
CJA's
July 26, 2001 memo to New York congressional delegation AND
Paper Trail to Jail in
"Disruption of Congress" Case
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