House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, in December 2019. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM House Overwhelmingly Votes to Toughen Federal Judges' Stock Reporting Requirements, Post Financial Disclosures Online
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, said the bill "makes incremental but necessary progress toward accountability by building on federal statutes that already prohibit judges from deciding cases in which they have a personal financial stake in the outcome."
December 01, 2021 at 07:02 PM
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Judicial Ethics
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to require the federal judiciary to make judges' financial disclosures publicly available online, in response to a stunning report that revealed more than 130 judges heard cases in which they had a financial holding.
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