President George W. Bush
2001
CJA's March 21, 2001 letter
to President Bush -- "RE: REMOVING THE ABA FROM ITS
PRIVILEGED SEMI-OFFICIAL ROLE IN THE FEDERAL JUDICIAL SELECTION
PROCESS"
SEE Judicial
Selection-Federal 1992-3
Judicial
Selection-Federal 1996
March 26, 2001 letter from President Bush's assistant counsel,
Bradford Berenson
CJA's July 14, 2001 letter to President Bush
--
"RE: Request for Presidential Leadership in Publicly
Endorsing Congressional Hearings on Federal Judicial Discipline
and Removal -- Including Threshold Hearings on the 1993 Report
of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal"
-- enclosing:
(1)
CJA's July 3, 2001 letter to Senator Charles Schumer, Chairman of the
Senate Judiciary
Committee's Courts Subcommittee
Exhibit A-1: CJA's May 27, 1996 ltr to Senator Hatch, Chairman/Senate
Judiciary Committee
Exhibit A-2: CJA's May 22, 1996 ltr to Chief Counsel/Subcommittee on
Administrative Oversight and the Courts
Exhibit A-3: CJA's March 21, 2001 ltr to President George W. Bush
Exhibit A-4: March 26, 2001 ltr from Bradford Berenson, Associate Counsel
to the President
Exhibit B-1: CJA's May 18, 1992 ltr 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 ltr to Patricia Hynes, Second Circuit
Representative/ABA Standing Committee
on
Federal Judiciary
Exhibit
D-1 Senator Strom Thurmond's June 13, 1996 ltr 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 ltr to Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit F:
Chairman Hatch's June 12, 1996 ltr to CJA
Exhibit G-1: CJA's June 18, 1996 ltr 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 ltr 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 ltr to Chief Counsel/Senator Herbert Kohl
Exhibit J-5: CJA's July 16, 1996 ltr 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 ltr to Leah Belaire/Investigative
Counsel/Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit M-2: CJA's August 3, 1998 ltr to staff/Senate Judiciary Committee
Exhibit M-3: CJA's August 19, 1998 ltr 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
(2)
CJA's July 11, 2001 letter to Senate Judiciary Committee members
(3)
CJA's July 11, 2001 letter to Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle &
Senate Minority
Leader Trent Lott
(4)
CJA's
July 14, 2001 letter to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
July 17, 2001 letter from President Bush's counsel, Alberto
Gonzales
2003
CJA's May 5, 2003 letter to President Bush
-- "RE: Withdrawing the Nomination of New York Court
of Appeals Judge Richard C. Wesley to the Second Circuit Court
of Appeals and the Nomination of P. Kevin Castel to the District
Court for the Southern District of New York"
SEE:
Paper Trail
to Jail in "Disruption of Congress" Case
CJA's June 6, 2003 letter to President Bush
-- "RE: Notifying the United States Senate to defer any vote
to confirm the nomination of New York Court of Appeals Judge
Richard C. Wesley to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals pending
review of CJA's March 26, 2003 written statement, summarizing
the documentary evidence of his corruption in office -- as to
which the Senate Judiciary Committee has undertaken NO
investigation and made NO findings"
CJA's June 9, 2003 memo to President Bush
June 23, 2003 letter from the White House