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FEDERAL JUDICIAL SELECTION 2001
Summation
of nearly a decade of CJA's interaction with the U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee & Senate leadership on federal judicial selection, set forth
in:
CJA's July 3, 2001 letter to Senator Charles Schumer, Chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee's Courts Subcommittee, for inclusion in the
record of its hearing "Should Ideology Matter?"
Exhibit A-1: CJA's May 27, 1996 letter to Senator Hatch, Chairman/Senate
Judiciary Committee
Exhibit A-2: CJA's May 22, 1996 letter to Chief Counsel/Subcommittee on
Administrative Oversight and the Courts
Exhibit A-3: CJA's March 21, 2001 letter to President George W. Bush
Exhibit A-4: March 26, 2001 letter from Bradford Berenson, Associate Counsel
to the President
Exhibit B-1: CJA's May 18, 1992 letter to Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell
Exhibit B-2: CJA's Letter to the Editor, "Untrustworthy Ratings",
NYT, 7/17/92
Exhibit C: CJA's October 31, 1995 letter to Patricia Hynes, Second Circuit
Representative/ABA Standing Committee
on
Federal Judiciary
Exhibit
D-1 Senator Strom Thurmond's June 13, 1996 letter to CJA
Exhibit D-2: pp. 4-5 of Senate Judiciary Committee's May 21, 1996 hearing on
"The Role of the ABA in the Judicial
Selection Process"
Exhibit E:
CJA's April 26, 1996 letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit F:
Chairman Hatch's June 12, 1996 letter to CJA
Exhibit G-1: CJA's June 18, 1996 letter to Chairman Hatch
Exhibit
G-2: CJA's June 26, 1996 fax to Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit H: Pages 790-1 of transcript of Senate Judiciary Committee's
June 25, 1996 "hearing" on the confirmation of
Lawrence Kahn's nomination to the District Court for the Northern
District of New York
Exhibit I-1: CJA's June 28, 1996 letter to Chairman Hatch
Exhibit I-2:
Certified mail/return receipts to/from Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
& Senate Minority Leader Tom
Daschle, as
well as fax coversheets and transmittal receipts
Exhibit J-1: CJA's July 15, 1996 faxed memo to Senate Judiciary
Committee counsel
Exhibit J-2: CJA's July 15, 1996 fax to Legislative Assistant to Senate
Majority Leader Lott
Exhibit J-3: CJA's July 15, 1996 fax to Legislative Assistant to Senate
Minority Leader Daschle
Exhibit J-4: CJA's July 15, 1996 letter to Chief Counsel/Senator Herbert Kohl
Exhibit J-5: CJA's July 16, 1996 letter to staff/Senate Minority Leader Daschle
Exhibit
J-6: CJA's itemized phone bill
Exhibit
J-7: descriptive chronology of CJA's Senate contacts, July 15-July 16,
1996
Exhibit
K: July 15, 1996 memo to Senate Judiciary Committee from Bill Van Allen
& Faye Rabenda
Exhibit L: Senate confirmation of Lawrence Kahn to District Court/NDNY
Exhibit M-1: CJA's July 30, 1998 letter to Leah Belaire/Investigative
Counsel/Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit M-2: CJA's August 3, 1998 letter to staff/Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit M-3: CJA's August 19, 1998 letter to Leah Belaire/Investigative
Counsel/Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit N-1: "Without Merit: The Empty Promise of Judicial Discipline",
by Elena Sassower, The Long Term
View
(Massachusetts School of Law) (summer 1997)
Exhibit N-2: CJA's March 10, 1998 memorandum
to House Judiciary Committee
Exhibit N-3: CJA's March 23, 1998 memorandum to House Judiciary Committee
Exhibit O-1: CJA's statement for inclusion in the record of the House
Judiciary Committee's June 11, 1998
"Oversight
Hearing of the Administration and Operation of the Federal Judiciary"
Exhibit O-2: Coversheet to Compendium substantiating CJA's s statement
Exhibit O-3: CJA's June 19, 1998 memo to
counsel/House Judiciary Committee
CJA's July 11, 2001 letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee
CJA's July 11, 2001 letter to Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle &
Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott
CJA's
July 14, 2001 letter to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
CJA's July 14, 2001 letter to President George W. Bush
responding July 17, 2001 letter from President Bush's counsel, Alberto Gonzales
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