By Tony Mauro | December 13, 2018
"How can you defy the president?" U.S. District Judge James Robart said. "That's what my job is—to be sure the Constitution is followed. If that means telling the president he is wrong, that is what I am supposed to do."
By Tony Mauro | December 13, 2018
The news media was criticized for routinely identifying the party of the president who appointed a judge. When making decisions, "we don't think about the president who appointed us," said retired federal judge Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York.
By Tony Mauro | December 13, 2018
"How can you defy the president?" U.S. District Judge James Robart said. "That's what my job is—to be sure the Constitution is followed. If that means telling the president he is wrong, that is what I am supposed to do."
By Tony Mauro | December 13, 2018
"How can you defy the president?" said U.S. District Judge James Robart at an event organized by The National Judicial College, at the Press Club building in Washington, D.C. "That's what my job is—to be sure the Constitution is followed. If that means telling the president he is wrong, that is what I am supposed to do."
By Dan M. Clark | December 13, 2018
Bruce Scolton will leave his post as court justice in the town of Harmony at the end of the month and has agreed to never seek judicial office again, according to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Rory I. Lancman and Rachel Graham Kagan | December 12, 2018
New York's elected district attorneys are at war with the governor and legislature over a new, first-in-the-nation, State Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct charged with reviewing claims that those charged with enforcing the law in a court of law might, themselves, be acting unlawfully. The District Attorneys Association of New York has sued to declare the Commission unconstitutional.
By Raychel Lean | December 12, 2018
Miami-Dade County Court Judge Maria D. Ortiz has accepted a 90-day suspension without pay, after the Florida Supreme Court struck down two prior stipulations with the Judicial Qualifications Commission in which the judge agreed to no suspension, then a 30-day suspension.
By John Council | December 10, 2018
"The special committee determined that the subject judge was insensitive to his position of power over both women and the difficulty they would feel in turning down his repeated invitations to dinner and drinks,” according to the order.
By Raychel Lean | December 7, 2018
In a 5-2 decision on Friday, the Florida Supreme Court said no to the latest sanctions proposed by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) and Miami-Dade County Court Judge Maria Ortiz, charged with violating the judicial code of conduct by accepting free hotel stays with her husband, a government official who allegedly took them as bribes.
By Michael Booth | December 6, 2018
New Jersey Superior Court Judge John F. Russo Jr., off the bench for nearly 20 months and accused of courtroom impropriety in his questioning of a sexual assault victim on the witness stand, is back on the job.
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