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National Law Journal

Neomi Rao's DC Circuit Nomination Clears Senate Panel

Rao's nomination hit a snag days ago when one member of the committee, Sen. Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican and a former clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., suggested he could not vote for Rao if she were pro-choice.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Trump's Morgan Lewis Tax Lawyer Faces House Scrutiny

Sheri Dillon and Stefan Passantino have been asked to appear for a “transcribed interview.”
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

House Panel Wants to Talk With Passantino And Another Ex-White House Lawyer

Sheri Dillon and Stefan Passantino have been asked to appear for a “transcribed interview.”
3 minute read

The Recorder

Former El Dorado Judge Is Banned From Serving on Bench Ever Again

Steven Bailey called the censure "a political hit by a Democrat-dominated commission designed to damage me politically."
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

In Holocaust, Jurists Were Vulnerable—Then Culpable, Historian Argues

A Holocaust historian says lawyers drafted Nazi laws that swept away civil liberties, and although judges overseeing this system weren't pressured to prop it up, they did so anyway.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Witnesses: Judge's Account Was Overdrawn When He Claimed Registry Funds

A court clerk who was instructed by Superior Court Judge Robert "Mack" Crawford to pay him $15,675.62 that had languished in the court registry for 15 years said it was Crawford's idea, not hers, to give him the money. Crawford's personal bank account was more than $2,000 overdrawn when he deposited the check in his personal account shortly before Christmas 2017.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

New JCB Chief: No Shakeups on the Horizon

Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board Chief Counsel Richard Long said the board's goal is "to continue to have the courage to make the difficult choices to do the right things for the right reasons, whether it's making a finding where there's no misconduct—even if there's a perception in the media or in the public to the contrary."
3 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Kavanaugh's Big Tobacco Recusals | A Narrow Ruling in Public Forum Case? | Justices End Posthumous Appeals Voting

What's behind Justice Brett Kavanaugh's recusals in a slew of tobacco cases from Florida? Plus: Will the justices issue a narrow ruling in the "public forum" First Amendment case? And the court says no to posthumous voting on appeals courts. Thanks for reading Supreme Court Brief!
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Suspended Judge Takes Stand During Ethics Hearing on Allegedly Stolen Funds

Pike County Superior Court Judge Robert "Mack" Crawford is accused of taking $15,000 from the court's registry, money he claims he was owed by a former client.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge Censured for Invoking His Title During 911 Call Over Locked Car

“I am Judge Abbott of Palmyra and I just won't do any arraignments for you anymore,” he said, according to the commission.
3 minute read

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