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By Avalon Zoppo | Brad Kutner | June 23, 2022
This week, we're taking a look at a couple of different topics, including ethics codes for justices and a look at administrative stays.
By Avalon Zoppo | Brad Kutner | June 16, 2022
With threats against Justice Kavanaugh last week and a judge in Wisconsin speaking this week about a threat against him, some members of the judiciary seem to be wondering if getting a gun for protection is a good idea.
By Avalon Zoppo | Brad Kutner | June 10, 2022
Plus: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's introduction of nominees to the Sentencing Commission is a hopeful sign that the understaffed body can soon get back to its work.
By Avalon Zoppo | Brad Kutner | June 3, 2022
It didn't take long for a single paragraph on PACER access from a Judicial Conference report to go viral, even if most of the internet got it wrong.
By Avalon Zoppo | Brad Kutner | May 26, 2022
Panelists at a National Judicial College event talked about how disinformation undermines the judiciary's independence, and what can be done about it.
By Avalon Zoppo | Brad Kutner | May 12, 2022
Aliza Shatzman was an aspiring assistant United States attorney and excited to start a clerkship in the D.C. Superior Court in August 2019, but it wasn't long after she started that she began facing harassment and discrimination from the (now former) judge she clerked for.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | January 27, 2022
As a reporter I'll always be on the side of transparency, accountability and accessibility. I don't think it disqualifies me, I think it's what we should all be aspiring to, in one way or another. And that includes the judiciary itself.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | January 21, 2022
"I think a reasonable person would doubt that a judge who thought he was probably unpatriotic could judge his case fairly," said one judicial ethics expert.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | January 13, 2022
"How can judges who have been schooled in the extraordinarily punitive system that produced mass incarceration for the past thirty years suddenly operate in a system that—one hopes—will reflect wholly different premises?" wrote former U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | January 6, 2022
"The judiciary's power to manage its internal affairs insulates courts from inappropriate political influence and is crucial to preserving public trust in its work as a separate and coequal branch of government," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his year-end report.
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