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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