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The Nomination of Caitlin J. Halligan to the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit

First Deputy Solicitor General to NYS Attorney General Eliot Spitzer:
January 2001 - September 24, 2001

NYS Solicitor General: 
September 24, 2001 - January 2007

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White House Press Release: September 29, 2010 "President Obama Names Two to U.S. Circuit Courts" --
                     "At every step of [her] career[]...unwavering integrity"


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AT THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE:

SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITEE's WEBSITE: 

(1) Judicial Nominations and Confirmations
  (2)   FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
(3) video of Senate Judiciary Committee's February 4, 2011 hearing on Caitlin Halligan's nomination  (44:30 - 49:44)
(4) Caitlin Halligan's updated Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire & February 22, 2011 responses to further questions
 
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[this webpage from March 7- until the posting of the below letter: March 9]

MARCH 9, 2011 LETTER
TO THE U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE (Majority Side),
FROM CJA DIRECTOR ELENA SASSOWER
 

RE:                  Citizen Opposition to Confirmation of Caitlin J. Halligan
                        to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit –
                        on the Agenda of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s
                        March 10, 2011 Executive Business Meeting

 

Dear Chairman Leahy and Democratic Majority Members:

 

This follows my telephone notification to the Senate Judiciary Committee Majority Office on Monday morning, March 7th, and then again yesterday morning, of the official misconduct of Caitlin J. Halligan as New York State Solicitor General, disqualifying her for any position of public trust, let alone for a judgeship.

 

Specifically, Ms. Halligan corrupted the judicial process to defeat a landmark public interest lawsuit against the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, sued for corruption.  She did this by countenancing the repudiation of ALL litigation standards by the Solicitor General’s office and the obliteration of ALL adjudicative standards by New York State judges, including as to judicial disqualification and disclosure.

 

Such misconduct is readily-verifiable and fully-documented by the lawsuit record, the particulars of which were brought to Ms. Halligan’s direct attention within days of her becoming Solicitor General by an October 2, 2001 letter to her, which I hand-delivered to her office.

 

Entitled, “Your Duty to Comply with Fundamental Rules of Supervisory and Professional Responsibility in the appeal…”, this October 2, 2001 letter is featured on CJA’s website, www.judgewatch.org, on a webpage devoted to our opposition to Ms. Halligan’s confirmation: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/judicial-selection/federal/judicial-selection-fed-2011.htm.[1]   It is the most convenient starting point for your verifying the litigation fraud she condoned and allowed her office to commit, warranting the relief I requested then and thereafter in motion papers: her referral to disciplinary and criminal authorities.  That would have happened, but for Ms. Halligan’s success in depriving me – the petitioner in the lawsuit, acting for the public – of a fair and impartial tribunal, which she did both before New York’s Appellate Division, First Department and the New York Court of Appeals, covering up a similar deprivation in Supreme Court/New York County. 

 

Inasmuch as Ms. Halligan did not respond to the October 2, 2001 letter – because doing so would have required her to concede the litigation fraud of the Solicitor General’s office and the judicial fraud of state judges without which the Commission could not prevail – she must be required to respond now – before any further consideration is given to her nomination This would especially include her response to the “three ‘highlights’”, identified at page 7 of my October 2, 2001 letter and in my subsequent correspondence and motion papers as “dispositive” of both branches of my August 17, 2001 motion: the first branch being for judicial disqualification/disclosure and the second branch pertaining to the Attorney General’s disqualification and the Solicitor General’s litigation misconduct.

 

The full record of the lawsuit is accessible via our webpage pertaining to our opposition to Ms. Halligan’s confirmation, as well as via the left sidebar panel “Test Case-State (Commission)”.  Nonetheless, I would be pleased to provide you with a hard copy – as well as to come to Washington to answer your questions and give testimony under oath.

 

Finally, so that you may glimpse the irreparable injury that Ms. Halligan caused the People of New York by her corrupting of the judicial process to protect a corrupted Commission on Judicial Conduct, I urge that you view the videos of the 2009 hearings on the Commission, held by the New York State Senate Judiciary Committee, posted on CJA’s website at: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/judicial-discipline/nys/nys-sjc-hearing.htm

 

Thank you.


click here for:  Record in the Appellate Division, 1st Dept.

click here for: Record in the NY Court of Appeals

 

CJA's October 2, 2001 letter to Solicitor General Caitlin J. Halligan -- "RE:  Your Duty to Comply with Fundamental Rules of Supervisory and Professional Responsibility in the appeal..."
       
   Ex A-1: "Spitzer Names Halligan Solicitor General", NYLJ, September 25, 2001
          Ex A-2: "Poised and Playful in the Legal Fast Lane", NYT, September 1, 2001
          Ex B: Disciplinary Rules: "Disclosure of Information to Authorities"; "Responsibilities of a Partner or Supervisory Lawyer"; Representing a Client Within the Bounds of the law"; "Awards of Costs and Imposition of Financial Sanctions for Frivolous Conduct in Civil Litigation"
          Ex. C:  CJA's September 4, 2001 memo to AG Spitzer & Solicitor General Preeta Bansal
          Ex. D:  Deputy Solicitor General Michael Belohlavek's September 6, 2001 letter
          Ex. E:  CJA's September 7, 2001 letter to Deputy Solicitor General Belohlavek
          Ex. F-1: CJA's September 17, 2001 letter to Deputy Solicitor General Belohlavek, sent by express mail
          Ex. F-2:  Express mail postal receipt

          Ex. G-1:    Assistant Solicitor General Carol Fischer's September 25, 2001 e-mail
          Ex. G-2:  CJA's September 26, 2001 e-mail to Assistant Solicitor General Fischer
          Ex. G-3:  CJA's September 26, 2001 e-mail to Assistant Solicitor General Fischer
          Ex. H:  CJA's September 21, 2001 letter to Gerald Stern, Administrator & Counsel, NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct
          Ex. I:  CJA's September 21, 2001 letter to Deputy Solicitor General Belohlavek
 


CJA's October 4, 2001 letter to Solicitor General Halligan -- RE:  Mr. Stern's bad-faith response to my September 21st letter to the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct"
        --
enclosing Mr. Stern's September 26, 2001 letter
     

CJA's October 9, 2001 letter to Solicitor General Halligan -- "RE:  My August 17th Motion in the Appeal..."

        -- enclosing CJA's October 9, 2001 letter to Mr. Stern -- "RE: Pertinent Disclosure in Connection with my August 17th Motion, inter alia, for Special Assignment /Transfer of Appeal"

     
CJA's October 11, 2001 memo to A.G. Spitzer & Solicitor General Halligan -- RE: Your Mandatory Supervisory Responsibilities..."
      
 -- enclosing Deputy Solicitor General Belohlavek's October 10, 2001 letter
                   & CJA's October 11, 2001 letter to Deputy Solicitor General Belohlavek -- "RE: Your Palpably Bad-Faith, Insufficient October 10, 2001 letter"



QUESTION: 
Can you find in the appellate record the decision on the relief sought by CJA's August 17, 2001 motion?

     
...or any factual findings as to the litigation fraud committed by the Solicitor General's Office
either at the Appellate Division or at the New York Court of Appeals?

 

 

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                                            Senate Judiciary Committee Members:                      

        Democratic Majority:                                         Republican Minority:         
Patrick Leahy, Chairman (Vermont)              Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member (Iowa)
Herb Kohl (Wisconsin)                                  Orrin G. Hatch (Utah)
Dianne Feinstein (California)                        Jon Kyl (Arizona)
Chuck Schumer (New York)                           Jeff Sessions (Alabama)
Dick Durban (Illinois)                                     Lindsay Graham (South Carolina)

Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island)             John Cornyn (Texas)
Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota)                          Michael S. Lee (Utah)
Al Franken  (Minnesota)                                Tom Coburn  (Oklahoma)
Christopher A. Coons (Delaware)
Richard Blumenthal   (Connecticut)

 

On the SAME DAY as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy & Ranking Member Grassley received CJA's March 9, 2011 letters of citizen opposition to Caitlin Halligan's confirmation, they received two other letters of opposition -- from the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) & Gun Owners of America.  Guess which letters neither Ranking Member Grassley nor Chairman Leahy mentioned at the next day's Senate Judiciary Committee Executive Business Meeting?  
                                                                       See video below:
           

video of Senate Judiciary Committee's Executive Business Meeting, March 10, 2011 
(see 25:40 - 51:30 -- judicial nominations beginning with Caitlin Halligan)      

Ranking Member Grassley's failure to identify CJA's March 9th letters is all the more stunning as he made a lengthy presentation, reading from a prepared statement entitled "D.C. Circuit Court Nominee Faces Scrutiny" , purporting:
 

      "Nominations to the D.C. Circuit deserve special scrutiny.  Many view this court as the second in importance only to the Supreme Court of the United States.  The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit hears cases  affecting all Americans.  It is frequently the last stop for cases involving federal statutes and regulations.  As we all know, Judges who sit on this court are frequently considered for and have been elevated to the Supreme Court.  So there is a lot at stake with nominations to this court...

     ...As I stated, we must carefully review the qualifications of nominees to this court. This committee has multiple precedents establishing a very heightened level of scrutiny given to nominees for the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

      ...I would urge for a rigorous review of the nominee..."  

 

As for Chairman Leahy, he introduced a March 4, 2011 letter of prominent attorneys expressing "enthusiastic support" for Ms. Halligan.

       

Official Results of Senate Judiciary Committee's Executive Business Meeting -- March 10, 2011:
"Caitlin Joan Halligan, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit
Ordered Reported By Roll Call Vote, 10-8"

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ON TO THE SENATE...

        SENATE LEADERSHIP:    Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader           Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader

                                                         (Democrat-Arizona)                                  (Republican-Kentucky)

 

CJA's March 14, 2011 letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid -- "RE Citizen Demand for Withdrawal from Today's Senate Executive Calendar &/or Senate Hold on the Confirmation of Caitlin J. Halligan to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit"   (with cc's to press & academia)

CJA's March 14, 2011 letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell -- "RE Citizen Demand for Withdrawal from Today's Senate Executive Calendar &/or Senate Hold on the Confirmation of Caitlin J. Halligan to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit"    (with cc's to press & academia)


                                      Senate Executive Calendar for Monday, March 14, 2011
"Calendar No.............43   
Message No..............5          
Nominee, Office and Predecessor ......Caitlin Joan Halligan, of New York,
                                                        to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit,
                                                        vice John G. Roberts, Jr., elevated.
Reported By..........Mar 10, 2011  Reported by Mr. Leahy, Committee on the Judiciary, without printed report."

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Tuesday, March 15, 2011 --  see Cal. #43, Message #5

 

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CJA's March 15, 2011 e-mail to Wintta Woldemariam, Counsel to NY Home-State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand -- "Subject: CJA's Request to NY Home-State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand RE: Confirmation of Former NY Solicitor General Caitlin Halligan to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit"

 

CJA's April 7, 2011 letter to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand -- ATT: Winnta Woldemariam -- "RE:  Awaiting Senator Gillibrand's Response to the Center for Judicial Accountability's Citizen Opposition to Senate Confirmation of Caitlin Halligan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit"
 

  click here for: Senator Gillibrand's website with its agenda of transparencey & openness to make government more accountable 
 

CJA's April 7, 2001 message sent via Senator Kirsten Gillbrand's website -- with acknowledgment

April 7, 2001 e-mail from Jordan Baugh, Legislative Aide to Senator Kirsten Gilibrand -- "Subject: Re: Halligan Nomination"

 

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Senate Executive Calendar for Wednesday, March 16, 2011 --  see Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Thursday, March 17, 2011 --  see Cal. #43, Message #5

Senate Executive Calendar for Monday, March 28, 2011 -- see Cal. #43, Message #5

Senate Executive Calendar for Tuesday, March 29, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5
 

Senate Executive Calendar for Thursday, March 31, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

Senate Executive Calendar for Monday, April 4, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5


Senate Executive Calendar for Wednesday, April 6, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

Senate Executive Calendar for Thursday, April 7, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Friday, April 8, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

Senate Executive Calendar for Tuesday, April 12, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Thursday, April 14, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

Senate Executive Calendar for Monday, May 2, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

Senate Executive Calendar for Wednesday, May 4, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Thursday, May 5, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Thursday, May 12, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Tuesday, May 17, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Thursday, May 19, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Tuesday, May 24, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Friday, June 3, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

Senate Executive Calendar for Thursday, June 14, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Tuesday, June 28, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Friday, July 1, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Monday, July 11, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

Senate Executive Calendar for Friday, September 2, 2011 -- See Cal. #43, Message #5

 

 

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OTHER OPPOSITION
 

CJA's March 17, 2011 e-mail to National Rifle Association of America (NRA), with a copy to Gun Owners of America (GOA) -- "Subject: The Senate's Betrayal of NRA, GOA, & The American People by its Public Posturing on the Nomination of Halligan to the US Court of Appeals to the DC Circuit"

 

CJA's March 23, 2011 e-mail to GOA, with copy to NRA -- ''Subject: The Senate's Betrayal of NRA, GOA, & The American People by its Public Posturing on the Nomination of Halligan to the US Court of Appeals to the DC Circuit"
 

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THE SUPPORTERS

 

CJA's March 22, 2011 letter to Nan Aron, President/Alliance for Justice -- "RE:  Championing the Citizen's Role in Federal Judicial Selection: Request that Alliance for Justice Withdraw its Support of Caitlin Halligan's Nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit & that it Call upon Senate Leadership to Remove her Name from the Senate's Executive Calendar &/or Place a Hold on her Confirmation"
 

                                          click here for  pertinent pages from Alliance for Justice's website --
                                                                   -- "About AFJ -- & Judicial Selection Project"
                                                                    -- AFJ report on Halligan

                                          click here for  CJA's referred-to past correspondence with Alliance for Justice


CJA's March 25, 2011 letter to Douglas T. Kendall, President/Constitutional Accountability Center -- "RE:  BEING TRUE to the Constitutional Accountability Center's 'Judicial Nominations and Accountability' 'Issue': (1) On Judicial Nominations: What is Your Response to the Center for Judicial Accountability's March 14, 2011 Letters to Senate Majority Leader Reid and Senate Minority Leader McConnell?; (2) On Judicial Accountability:  What is Your Response to the Center for Judicial Accountability's May 13, 2008 Memo to Senate Majority Leader Reid and Senate Minority Leader McConnell?

                                                                      

     Constitutional Accountability Center's March 17, 2011 letter to Senate Majority Leader Reid & Senator Minority Leader McConnell

            -- CAC's March 11, 2011 blog "A Note to Senator Grassley: Ten < Eleven" by VP Judith E. Schaeffer
            -- CAC's March 18, 2011 blog "D.C. Circuit Nominee Halligan to Argue Before U.S. Supreme Court on Monday"

 


QUERIES
 

CJA's March 21, 2011 e-mail to Judicial Action Group -- "RE:  Caitlin Halligan's nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit"



THE PEOPLE's VOICE

 

March 28, 2011 letter from William Windsor to his two U.S. Senators -- 
                         to Senator Saxby Chambliss        to Senator Johnny Isakson

 


Academia Tested:

Brookings Institution
--

       click here for Brookings' February 28, 2011 forum "Breaking the Judicial Nominations and Confirmations Logjam"

                         Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow/Governance Studies;
                         Benjamin Wittes, Senior Fellow/Governance Studies;
                         Sarah A. Binder, Senior Fellow/Governance Studies;
                         Russell Wheeler, Visiting Fellow/Governance Studies


cc'ing of CJA's March 9, 2011 e-mail to Senate Judiciary Committee to Mann, Wittes, Binder, & Wheeler -- "Subject: Tomorrow's Executive Business Meeting: Citizen Opposition to Confirmation of Caitlin Halligan to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit"
   

CJA's March 11, 2001 e-mail to Mann, Wittes, Binder, & Wheeler -- "Subject: More Than Politics -- The Role of the Citizen in Federal Judicial Selection: Building Scholarship that Does Not Presently Exist"

 

CJA's March 14, 2011 e-mail: "Subject: Caitlin Halligan's Confirmation on Today's Senate Executive Calendar"

 

CJA's April 19, 2011 e-mail to Darrell West, Vice President of Brookings & Director of its Governance Studies Program -- "Subject: Being True to the Brookings' 'mission' of high-quality, independent research...that [s]trengthen[s] American democracy"  (with cc's to Mann, Wittes, Binder, Wheeler)

 


        

The Press in Action:

     click here for Prior press about Caitlin Halligan's nomination/confirmation:



NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE
(Bench Memos:  Ed Whelan, Carrie Severino, Gary Marx)
& MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
(Adam Shah & Staff)
--

            CJA's March 11, 2011 e-mail: "Subject: Balancing your Party-Line Fighting with Non-Partisan Reporting"

 

       Media Matters: March 14, 2011: "National Review Misfires In Attack On Obama Judicial Nominee Haligan's Gun Rights Record"

 

            CJA's March 14, 2011 e-mail: "Subject: Caitlin Halligan's Confirmation on Today's Senate Executive Calendar"

 

            CJA's March 21, 2011 e-mail:  "Subject: Political Posturing on the Caitlin Halligan Nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit"

 

            CJA's March 23, 2011 e-mail to Ed Whelan -- "Subject: UPDATE on Political Posturing on the Caitlin Halligan Nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit"  (cc to Gary  Marx, Carrie Severino, Media Matters)

 

            Ed Whelan's March 23, 2011 e-mail: "Subject:  RE: UPDATE on Political Posturing on the Caitlin Halligan Nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit"  (cc to Gary  Marx, Carrie Severino, Media Matters)

 

            CJA's March 23, 2011 e-mail to Ed Whelan -- "Subject: thank you for your response -- UPDATE on Political Posturing on the Caitlin Halligan Nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit"

 

Subsequent Media Matters coverage --   

 

December 2, 2011  "Myths And Falsehoods About Judicial Nominee Caitlin Halligan"


WASHINGTON TIMES

             CJA's March 14, 2011 e-mail to Brett Decker, Editorial Page Editor & David Sands/National Politics Editor -- "Subject: Caitlin Halligan's Confirmation on Today's Senate Executive Calendar"

 

             Brett Decker's March 14, 2011 e-mail -- "Subject: Re: Caitlin Halligan's Confirmation on Today's Senate Executive Calendar"

             CJA's March 14, 2011 e-mail to Brett Decker -- "Subject: Thank you for your invitation"

 

NEW YORK TIMES

 

            CJA's March 15, 2011 e-mail -- Washington Bureau, National Bureau, Metro Bureau, Editorial Board, John Eligon, William Glaberson, James Barron -- "Subject: On Today's Senate Calendar: Confirmation of Former NY Solicitor General Caitlin Halligan to the US Court of Appeals to the DC Circuit"

 

            March 15, 2011 e-mail acknowledgment from nytnews@nytimes.com

 

                   Subsequent New York Times coverage --           
April 20, 2011 "Opinionator: Missing in Action", Linda Greenhouse
  


December 6, 2011 "Filibuster by Senate Republicans Blocks Confirmation of Judicial Nominee", Charlie Savage and Raymond Hernandez

December 7, 2011:  "Taking Note -- The Editorial Page Editor's Blog:  Lousy Filibusters:  Caitlin Halligan Edition", by Andrew Rosenthal

 

December 14, 2011 "Opinionator: Rock Bottom", Linda Greenhouse

June 11, 2012  "Obama Nominates Two for Federal Appeals Court", Charlie Savage



WASHINGTON POST

        
 CJA's March 17, 2011 e-mail -- National Desk, Metro Desk -- "Subject: 'Without printed report': Caitlin Halligan's nomination to the US Court of Appeals to the DC Circuit on the Senate's Executive Calendar"

                        March 17, 2011 Washington Post article "Senate confirms second D.C. federal court nominee this week" by Ben Pershing

 

December 6, 2011  "Senate Republican filibuster blocks Obama D.C. Circuit nominee Caitlin Halligan", Washington Post blog


NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL / LEGAL TIMES (BLT)

 

        CJA's March 17, 2011 e-mail -- "'WITHOUT PRINTED REPORT': The Senate Executive Calendar for Caitlin Halligan's nomination to the US Ct of Appeals for the DC Circuit"

                        March 17, 2011 BLT article -- "Senate Confirms Another D.C. Judge" by David Ingram

 

                        March 21, 2011 BLT item -- "Morning Wrap -- Veteran v. Rookie" by Mike Scarcella

       CJA's March 21, 2011e-mail -- "Political Posturing on the Caitlin Halligan Nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit"

 

                         March 21, 2011 article -- "A.D.C. Circuit nominee's nimble appearance at the high court" by Tony Mauro
 


AMERICAN PROSPECT

      

          July 1, 2011 column by American Prospect Writing Fellow Jamelle Bouie  "Please Stay on the Line: Your nominations are very important to us."

 

          CJA's July 1, 2011 e-mail to Jamelle Bouie -- "Subject: CORRECTING: 'Please Stay on the Line.  Your nominations are very important to us"
 

 

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Other Press

 

November 16, 2011  "Caitlin Halligan Need Not Apply: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals does not require her service", American Spectator

 

December 6, 2011  "Senate Republicans Spend a Long Day Protecting the Courts in Order To Trash Them", Slate, Dahlia Lithwick 


December, 8, 2011  "Caitlin Halligan: D.C. Circuit Court Judicial Nominee Filibustered", Huffington Post

 

December 12, 2011 "Caitlin Halligan & Richard Cordray blocked by partisan GOP", editorial, New York Daily News
 


  
     

postscript:  the origin of CJA's advocacy vs Caitlin Halligan's confirmation
 

 

 

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