Recently, our Legal Intelligencer, of which I have been a significant supporter for many years, did something extraordinarily disappointing. It adopted from the New Jersey Law Journal and published, without analysis, a "study" by The Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Inc., which, by its own admissions, was methodologically flawed. It identified as two of the "most discriminatory federal judges" Tim Savage and Darnell Jones.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, our Federal Community Defender Office, as well as the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, criticized the publication, rejected its conclusions as a matter of empirical evidence, and questioned the paper's methodology.