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JUDICIAL SELECTION -- FEDERAL

 

"ASSEMBLY-LINE APPROVAL:  A Common Cause Study of Senate Confirmation of Federal Judges" 
(January 1986) 

    
 

Case Study #1:  1992-3
The Nomination of Westchester County (New York) Executive Andrew O'Rourke

to the District Court for the Southern District of New York



Case Study #2:   
1996
The Nomination of Albany County (New York) Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Kahn
to the District Court for the Northern District of New York




Case Study #3:   1998
The Nomination of Alvin Hellerstein, Esq.
to the District Court for the Southern District of New York




Case Study #4:   2001
Summary of CJA's Decade-Long Interaction with Federal Judicial Selection




Case Study #5:   2003-4
The Nominations of New York Court of Appeals Judge Richard C. Wesley
to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
& of P. Kevin Castel to the District Court for the Southern District of New York --
[PAPER TRAIL TO JAIL -- "Disruption of Congress" Case
]
 

Case Study #6:  2011
The Nomination of Former New York Solicitor General Caitlin J. Halligan
to
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit



Case Study #7:  2013
 The Re-Nomination of Former New York Solicitor General Caitlin J. Halligan to
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit


Case Study #8:  2014-2015
The Nomination of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch as U.S. Attorney General

 

Case Study #9:  2021
CJA's Opposition to Senate Confirmation

of President Biden's Nomination of New York's 4 U.S. Attorneys

 


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CJA's statement for the record
of the Senate Judiciary Committee's May 21, 1996 hearing on
"The Role of the American Bar Association in the Judicial Selection Process"


CJA's statement for the record
of the Senate Judiciary Committee's June 26, 2001 hearing on
"The Judicial Nomination and Confirmation Process"

 

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BUILDING HONEST SCHOLARSHIP 

Yale Law School's 14th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference:
CJA's December 27, 2007 memo to Student Co-Directors -- "No More 'High-Tech Lynchings:' Reforming the Judicial Appointment Process"

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