Chief Judge William Pryor Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, speaking at a panel discussion during the "Law Symposium: Justice Thomas's Thirty-Year Legacy on the Court," Co-hosted by The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the Heritage Foundation, in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, October 21, 2021. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM House Judiciary Leaders Urge SCOTUS to Investigate 11th Circuit's Hiring of Clerk With History of Racist Remarks
"While the above actions are worrying in the extreme, we want to make clear that the focus of this letter is not the individual who was hired but, rather, the members of the federal judiciary who chose to hire her," Nadler and Johnson said. "This past conduct was clearly publicly available by the time of these judges' hiring decisions. If the judges were not aware of their law clerk's widely reported record, their negligent hiring practices present their own set of problems with the judiciary."
November 10, 2021 at 07:19 PM
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Judges
Leaders of the House Judiciary Committee have asked U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to open an investigation into the Eleventh Circuit chief judge's recent hiring of a federal law clerk with "a history of nakedly racist and hateful conduct."
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