RUSSELL WHEELER

bio   &  here  

"served as overall staff coordinator and oversaw the preparation of various Committee documents.  He left the [Federal Judicial] Center in 2005 but has continued his work in support of the Committee.  He was a reporter for the Judicial Conference's Federal Curts Study Committee, a consultant to its Long Range Planning Committee, and provided research for the statutory Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals. He is a grasduate of Augustana College and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., political science." -- Appendix C "Key Staff" of September 2006 Breyer Committee Report on the Implementation of the Judicial Conduct & Disability Act of 1980

2010

Wheeler's January 11, 2010 e-mail to CJA

           CJA's March 6, 2008 Critique of the Breyer Committee Report

2011

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

   -- SEE: Judicial Selection-Federal: 2011-Caitlin J. Halligan 

CJA's March 11, 2011 e-mail --
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 --
"Caitlin Halligan's Confirmation on Today's Senate Executive Calendar"
 

cc: CJA's April 19, 2011 e-mail to Darrell West, Director of Governance Studies for Brookings --
"Being True to the Brookings' 'mission' of high-quality, independent research...that [s]trengthen[s] American democracy" 

2023

CJA's July 18, 2023 e-mail --
"Setting the Record Straight: 'Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act' -- Request for your Expert Opinion & Scholarship"

CJA's July 20, 2023 e-mail --
"Corrected July 18, 2023 Letter -- Setting the Record Straight: 'The 'Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act' & the Falsehoods that Have Accompanied It"

TESTIMONY AT HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HEARINGS

2013
April 25, 2013 Courts Subcommittee Hearing:
"An Examination of the Judicial Conduct and Disciplinary System"
(Serial #113-25)
VIDEO 

2019
June 21, 2019 Courts Subcommittee Hearing:
"The Federal Judiciary in the 21st Century:
Ideas for Promoting Ethics, Transparency and Accountability"
(Serial #116-29)
VIDEO

April 2007

November 28, 2011
"What's So Hard About Regulating Supreme Court Justices' Ethics? -- Alot" 
(Brookings)

June 2017:
Judicial Recusal Procedures
Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System
(Wheeler & Malia Reddick) 

June 30, 2021
Wheeler's Statement to Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States

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