Searching
for Champions - Organizations
Alliance for Justice
1992
CJA's
May 7, 1992 letter to George Kassouf, Director/Judicial
Selections -- "RE: Federal Judicial Nominations"
-- transmitting CJA's
May 1, 1992 case-study critique of federal
judicial selection
CJA's May 8, 1992 fax
CJA's May 8, 1992 fax to George
Kassouf
CJA's May 14, 1992 fax to George
Kassouf
CJA's May 15, 1992 fax to
George Kassouf
CJA's May 19, 1992 fax to George
Kassouf
CJA's May 27, 1992 fax to
Nan Aron, Executive Director
CJA's June 3, 1992 fax to Nan
Aron
1996
CJA's August 13, 1996 letter
to Nan Aron, President -- "RE: Coalition for non-partisan reform" (indicated copy to Free Congress Foundation)
-- transmitting pages from 1986
Common
Cause Report, "Assembly-Line Approval"
&
from 1988
Twentieth Century Fund Report "Judicial Roulette"
-- and enclosing
CJA's June 28, 1996 letter to Senate
Judiciary Chairman Hatch
1997
CJA's February 18, 1997 fax
1998
CJA's July 30, 1998 fax
CJA's August 3, 1998 memo
to Nan Aron -- "RE: Citizen Opposition to Senate Confirmation of Alvin
K. Hellerstein - District Court, Southern District, New York"
CJA's August 18, 1998 letter
to Nan Aron, etc. -- "RE: Concerted Action on Issues of Federal Judicial
Selection and Discipline"
enclosure: CJA’s August 11, 1998 letter to ABA President
Philip Anderson
(see pp. 6-10)
SEE:
Test Case-Federal (Mangano) -- Supreme Court
(see cert petition & supplemental petition)
2003
CJA's
September 10, 2003 memo
-- enclosing
CJA's September 10, 2003 letter to Constitution Project-Courts Initiative
-- enclosing
CJA's June 16, 2003 memo
to Ralph Nader, Public Citizen, & Common Cause -- "RE:
Championing Basic Citizen Rights -- and the Vital Importance of Citizen
Participation in Federal Judicial Selection"
SEE:
Paper Trail to
Jail in "Disruption of Congress" case
2004
CJA's June 8, 2004
memo to organizations on the left and supposedly "non-partisan" purporting
to promote citizen participation &/or involving themselves with issues of
judicial selection --
"RE: Your (On-Going)
Responsibility to 'Champion Basic Citizen Rights -- and the Vital Importance
of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial Selection' at Issue in the
'Disruption of Congress' case of
United States of America v. Elena Ruth Sassower..."
CJA's June 9, 2004 memo to
organizations on the right --
"RE: Your (On-Going)
Responsibility to 'Champion Basic Citizen Rights -- and the Vital Importance
of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial Selection' at Issue in the
'Disruption of Congress' case of
United States of America v. Elena Ruth Sassower..."
CJA's June
10, 2004 draft memo of law on the
unconstitutionality of the "disruption of
Congress" statute
2005
CJA's
May 27, 2005 memo to
Nan Aron -- "RE: Furthering 'Basic
Citizen Rights -- and the Vital Importance of Citizen Participation in
Federal Judicial Selection', as well as Fundamental Judicial Accountability
by your Amicus Curiae and Other Assistance in the Appeal of the
'Disruption of Congress' Case, Elena Ruth Sassower v. United States of
America"
SEE:
"Disruption of Congress"- DC Court of Appeals
(6/28/05 appellant's brief & supplemental fact
statement)
CJA's
August 23, 2005 memo to
Nan Aron -- "RE: AMICUS CURIAE
BRIEFS ARE DUE NOVEMBER 14, 2005 in the Consolidated Appeals of the
'Disruption of Congress' Case, Elena Ruth Sassower v. United States of
America"
2007
CJA's June 22, 2007 memo to Ralph Nader & liberal/conservative organizations
-- "RE: Championing Basic Citizen Rights, the Vital Importance
of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial Selection, and Fundamental
Judicial Accountability by Your Amicus Curiae Support for U.S.
Supreme Court Review of the Cert Petition in the 'Disruption of Congress'
Case"
CJA's
August 24, 2007 memo to Justice at
Stake Campaign & Its Campaign Partners --
"RE: Championing Judicial Independence
at the U.S. Supreme Court by your
amicus
curiae support for the filed and
docketed cert petition in the 'disruption of
Congress' case"
SEE:
"Disruption of Congress" - US Supreme Court
(see 8/17/07 cert petition)
2011
CJA's March 22, 2011 e-mail to Nan Aron,
President/Alliance for Justice -- "RE: Championing the
Citizen's Role in Federal Judicial Selection: Request that Alliance
for Justice Withdraw its Support of Caitlin Halligan's Nomination to
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit & that it Call upon
Senate Leadership to Remove her Name from the Senate's Executive
Calendar &/or Place a Hold on her Confirmation"
click here for pertinent pages from Alliance for Justice's website
--
-- "About
AFJ -- & Judicial Selection Project"
--
AFJ report on Halligan