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Searching
for Champions - Organizations
Common Cause
1992
CJA's
May 15, 1992 fax
-- mailing of CJA's case-study
critique of federal judicial selection
CJA's May 28, 1992 fax
CJA's June 26, 1992 letter
1996
CJA's August 14, 1996 fax
to Ed Davis, Lobbyist
-- enclosing
CJA's August 13, 1996 letter
to Nan Aron/Alliance for Justice
CJA's August 19, 1996 letter
to Ed Davis -- "RE: Coalition for non-partisan reform"
-- transmitting pages from 1986
Common
Cause Report, "Assembly-Line Approval"
&
from 1988
Twentieth Century Fund Report "Judicial Roulette"
-- and enclosing
CJA's June 28, 1996 letter to Senate
Judiciary Chairman Hatch
-- enclosing CJA's
1992 Critique & Compendium of Exhibits & 3 Correspondence Compendia
2001
CJA's July 10, 2001 letter to
Ed Davis -- "RE: Coalition-Building and Collaboration on the
non-partisan issues of ensuring the integrity of the
processes of federal judicial selection and discipline"
-- mailing
CJA's July 3, 2001 ltr to Senator Schumer & transmittal ltrs to recipients
CJA's July 17, 2001 letter
to Ed Davis
2003
CJA's June 16, 2003 memo
to Ed Davis -- "RE: Championing Basic Citizen Rights -- and the
Vital Importance of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial Selection"
SEE:
Paper Trail
to Jail in "Disruption of Congress" case
Ed Davis' June 19, 2003
e-mail
CJA's
September 10, 2003 memo
-- enclosing
CJA's September 10, 2003 letter to Constitution Project-Courts Initiative
--enclosing
CJA's June 16, 2003 memo
2004
CJA's June 8, 2004
memo to organizations on the left and supposedly "non-partisan" purporting
to promote citizen participation &/or involving themselves with issues of
judicial selection
CJA's June 9, 2004 memo to
organizations on the right --
"RE: Your (On-Going)
Responsibility to 'Champion Basic Citizen Rights -- and the Vital
Importance of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial Selection' at
Issue in the 'Disruption of Congress' case of
United States of America v. Elena Ruth Sassower..."
CJA's
June 10, 2004 draft memo of law on the
unconstitutionality of the "disruption of
Congress" statute
2005
CJA's
May 27, 2005 memo to Ralph
Nader & established/establishment
organizations -- "RE: Furthering 'Basic
Citizen Rights -- and the Vital Importance of Citizen Participation in
Federal Judicial Selection', as well as Fundamental Judicial
Accountability by your Amicus Curiae and Other Assistance in the
Appeal of the 'Disruption of Congress' Case, Elena Ruth Sassower v.
United States of America"
SEE:
"Disruption of Congress"- DC Court of Appeals
(6/28/05 appellant's brief & supplemental fact
statement)
May
27, 2005 e-mail acknowledgment from Ed Davis
CJA's
August 23, 2005 memo to
Ralph Nader & established/establishment
organizations -- "RE: AMICUS CURIAE
BRIEFS ARE DUE NOVEMBER 14, 2005 in the Consolidated Appeals of the
'Disruption of Congress' Case, Elena Ruth Sassower v. United States
of America"
2007
CJA's June 20, 2007 memo to Bob Edgar, President & CEO & Ed Davis, Vice
President of Policy & Research -- "RE: Championing Judicial Independence
at the U.S. Supreme Court by Amicus Curiae Support for Cert
Petition in 'Disruption of Congress Case"
CJA's June 22, 2007 memo to Ralph Nader & liberal/conservative
organizations -- "RE: Championing Basic Citizen Rights,
the Vital Importance of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial
Selection, and Fundamental Judicial Accountability by Your Amicus
Curiae Support for U.S. Supreme Court Review of the Cert Petition in
the 'Disruption of Congress' Case"
CJA's July 2, 2007 memo to Justice at Stake Campaign Partners --
"RE: 'Working to Keep Our Courts Fair and Impartial' -- As Empirically
Tested by the 'Disruption of Congress' Case"
CJA's
August 24, 2007 memo to Justice at
Stake Campaign & Its Campaign Partners --
"RE: Championing Judicial Independence
at the U.S. Supreme Court by your amicus
curiae support for the filed and
docketed cert petition in the 'disruption of
Congress' case"
SEE:
"Disruption of Congress" - US Supreme
Court
(see 8/17/07 cert petition)
Common
Cause-New York
1998
CJA's February 3, 1998 letter to Rachel Leon, Executive Director
CJA's
February 5, 1998 memo to Rachel Leon
CJA's
February 9, 1998 memo to Rachel Leon
2004
CJA's January 26, 2004 memo -- "RE: Vindicating the Public's
Right to Know: The Role of $ in 'Merit Selection' to the NY Court of
Appeals"
--
SEE:
Judicial Selection - NY -
"Merit Selection" to NY Ct of Appeals: Smith
2009
CJA's September 24, 2009 memo to, inter alia, Common Cause/NY
--
"RE: Building Dialogue & Scholarship: 'Merit Selection' to the
New York Court of Appeals"
CJA's September 21, 2009 Comment
to the Commission on Judicial Nomination's Proposed Revised Rules
Exhibit A-1:
“Merit
System For Choosing Judges Isn’t A Cure-all”,
NYT,
1/28/79
Exhibit A-2: “Cuomo Clashes With
Committee Over Judgeships: Asks Panel to
Disregard Law on Nominations”, NYT,
12/20/82
Exhibit
A-3: “The Dispute Over Selections for Court of Appeals”,
NYT,
12/27/82
Exhibit
A-4(a): “The Campaign for Governor is Over: What’s on Trial
Is
How Best to Pick Judges”, NYT, 12/29/82, editorial
Exhibit A-4(b): “Judges Are Better Elected Than Selected”,
NYT, 1/11/83,
letter to the editor by Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink
Exhibit A-5: “Cuomo Requests
Greater Leeway To Select Judges:
Seeks Revised Procedure for Top Court in State”,
NYT, 12/30/82
Exhibit A-6: “Picking of Judges
Assailed by Cuomo: Wants More
Options in Filling Appeals Court Vacancies”,
NYT, 8/15/83
Exhibit A-7: “Judge Selection for New York’s High
Court: The System
Works”, NYT, 8/30/83, letter to the editor by Senate
Minority Leader Manfred Orenstein
Exhibit A-8: “Cuomo Gets Names For
Top Court Job: He Criticizes
Lack of Diversity in List of 7 for Chief Judge”,
NYT, 12/2/84
Exhibit A-9: “Challenge for Cuomo: Picking Judges”,
NYT, 12/7/84
Exhibit A-10: “How Manhattan Stole the Judiciary”,
NYLJ, 12/9/93,
by Appellate Division Justice William C. Thompson
Exhibit
B-1: “Court of Appeals Candidates Are Named”,
NYLJ, 12/3/02
Exhibit B-2: “Few Appellate Judges Apply for Wesley’s
Seat”, NYLJ,
9/18/03
Exhibit
B-3: “Model for Selecting Top Court Judges
Reveals Its Flaws”,
NYLJ, 11/13/03
Exhibit
C: “Semi-Secret Court of Appeals Nominations Draws
Criticism”,
NYLJ,
11/2/00
Exhibit D-1: May 10, 1978 letter from Assemblyman Charles
Henderson
to Governor Hugh Carey, from legislative bill jacket,
Chapter 156, Laws of 1978
Exhibit
D-2: Election Flyer: “On Tuesday, November 8, 1977 For
Better
Courts Vote YES on Court Reform Amendments”
Exhibit
E-1: “Wider Selection Urged for Governor”, NYLJ,
12/23/82,
letter to the editor by Supreme Court Justice James J. Leff
Exhibit
E-2: “Changes Needed In Judicial Selection”, NYLJ,
11/30/82,
letter to the editor by Acting Supreme Court Justice Walter
M. Schackman
CJA's November 23, 2009 memo to, inter alia, Common Cause/NY --
"RE: Building Dialogue & Scholarship: 'Merit Selection' to the
New York Court of Appeals"
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