THE CORRUPTION OF "MERIT SELECTION"
TO NEW YORK'S HIGHEST
STATE COURT:
ALBERT
M. ROSENBLATT
unprecedented, no-notice, by invitation-only confirmation hearing on December
17, 1998 -- at which there was no opposition testimony and CJA was not permitted
to testify
CJA's December 16, 1998 letter to Senate Judiciary
Committee Counsel Gruenberg
December 17, 1998: Senate Judiciary Committee transcript:
3:30 p.m.
December 17, 1998: Senate transcript: 9:22 p.m.
[SEE also:
Searching for Champions-State-NY: Commission on Judicial
Nomination]
AN APPEAL TO FAIRNESS: REVISIT THE COURT OF APPEALS
New York
Post, Letter to the Editor by Elena Ruth Sassower
December 28,
1998
SEE:
CJA's December 28, 1998 letter to A.G. Spitzer
SEE:
CJA's January 27, 1999 letter to A.G. Spitzer (see pp. 4-5)
SEE:
CJA's
March 26, 1999 ethics complaint to the NYS Ethics Commission
against Commission on Judicial Nomination,
Governor Pataki, Attorney General Spitzer
SEE:
See paras. 16-31
of
April 22, 1999 Verified Petition --
Elena Ruth Sassower,
Coordinator of the Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc., acting
pro bono publico,
v. Commission on Judicial Conduct of the State of
New York
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OTHER 'MERIT SELECTION" APPOINTMENTS
TO THE NY COURT OF APPEALS:
HOWARD A. LEVINE
1993
CARMEN BEAUCHAMP CIPARICK
1993-initial appointment
ALBERT
M. ROSENBLATT
1998 (you are here)
VICTORIA A.
GRAFFEO
2000
SUSAN P.
READ
2003
ROBERT S.
SMITH
2004
EUGENE F. PIGOTT, JR.
2006
JUDITH S. KAYE
2007
JONATHAN LIPPMAN
2009
JANET DiFIORE
2015-2016
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