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THE CORRUPTION OF "MERIT SELECTION"
TO NEW YORK'S HIGHEST STATE COURT:
EUGENE F. PIGOTT, JR.
CJA's September 14, 2006 testimony
in opposition to confirmation
Appendix (27 pp.):
A-1
CJA's September 5, 2006 letter to NYS Senate Judiciary Committee Chair DeFrancisco
A-3
Chair DeFrancisco's September 8, 2006 letter to CJA
A-5
"On Choosing Judges, Pataki Creates Problems", CJA's Letter to the
Editor, The New York Times,
November 16, 1996
A-6 “Restraining ‘Liars in the
Courtroom’ and on the Public Payroll”, CJA’s $3,077 public interest ad,
New York Law Journal, August 27, 1997, pp. 3-4
A-9 CJA’s April 18, 1996
letter to David Gruenberg, former counsel to the NYS Senate Judiciary Committee
– to which Governor Pataki’s then counsel, Michael Finnegan, was an indicated
recipient, sent a copy by certified mail/return receipt
A-14 CJA’s April 29, 1996 letter to
Michael Finnegan, Governor Pataki’s then counsel, sent certified mail/return
receipt
A-19 Governor Pataki’s
January 9, 1997 Nomination of Eugene F. Pigott, Jr. to be an interim Supreme
Court Justice for the Eighth Judicial District
A-20 NYS Senate Judiciary
Committee’s February 4, 1997 notice of meeting to consider the nomination of
Eugene F. Pigott, Jr. as interim Supreme Court Justice
A-21 NYS Commission on Judicial
Nomination’s July 20, 2006 letter-report to the Governor, with enclosed “summary of the careers of the recommended candidates”
SEE: Judicial
Selection-State-NY: "Corruption of Judicial Appointments to NY's Lower State
Courts -- Chronological
SEE:
Judicial
Selection-State-NY: The Corruption of 'Merit Selection' to New York's
Highest State Court"
CJA's
September 18, 2006 letter to Secretary of Senate Steven M. Boggess --
"FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW (FOIL) REQUEST: Senate confirmation of Appellate
Division, Fourth Department Presiding Justice Eugene F. Pigott, Jr. to the New
York Court of Appeals"
CJA's September 18, 2006 letter to
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair DeFrancisco -- "RE: FOR THE
RECORD: Senate confirmation of Appellate Division, Fourth Department Presiding
Justice Eugene F. Pigott, Jr. to the New York Court of Appeals"
September 25, 2006 letter from
Secretary of the Senate Boggess
CJA's September 27, 2006 letter to
Secretary of the Senate Boggess -- "FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW (FOIL)
REQUEST: Payment & Information as to Policy and Procedure"
CJA's September 28, 2006 letter to
Chair DeFrancisco -- "(1) Reiterated request for applicable Senate
Rules and Regulations; (2) F.O.I.L. request for stenographic transcript of the
Senate Judiciary Committee's September 14, 2006 'hearing' to confirm Justice
Eugene F. Pigott, Jr. to the Court of Appeals, etc."
October 6, 2006 letter from
Secretary of the Senate Boggess
October 24, 2006 letter from
Chair DeFrancisco's Chief of Staff, Carole Luther
CJA's November 1, 2006 letter to
Chair DeFrancisco -- "The Senate Judiciary Committee's Procedures:
Transcripts of Confirmation 'Hearings' to the New York Court of Appeals"
CJA's January 16, 2007 letter to Chair DeFrancisco -- Att:
Chief of State Luther
-- "Senate Judiciary Committee Procedures: (1) transcripts of confirmation
hearings to NY Court of Appeals; (2) confirmation of Supreme Court Justice
Theodore T. Jones, Jr. to NY Court of Appeals, request for publicly-available
documents, & request to testify"
CJA's February 9, 2007 letter to
Chair DeFrancisco -- ATT: Chief of Staff Luther
-- "(1) CJA's January 16, 2007 letter pertaining to Senate Judiciary Committee
procedures & request to testify in opposition to Senate confirmation of Brooklyn
Supreme Court Justice Theodore T. Jones, Jr. to the New York Court of Appeals;
(2) CJA's opposition to Senate confirmation of the reappointment of New York
Court of Appeals Chief Judge Judith Kaye & request to testify in opposition
CJA's February 20, 2007 letter to Chair
DeFrancisco -- ATT: Chief of Staff Luther -- "(1) FOIL request
for stenographic transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee's February 12,
2007 'hearing' to confirm Justice Theodore T. Jones, Jr. to the New York Court
of Appeals, etc.; (2) Reiterated request for policy pertaining to witness
requests for the transcripts of their own testimony"
February 21. 2007 e-mail from Chief
of Staff
Luther -- "Re: FOIL Request for Transcript of Senate Judiciary
Committee's February 12, 2007 'Hearing' to Confirm Justice Jones to NY Court of
Appeals"
CJA's February 21, 2007 e-mail to
Chief of Staff
Luther -- "Thank You! -- Re: FOIL Request for Transcript of Senate
Judiciary Committee's February 12, 2007 'Hearing' to Confirm Justice Jones to NY
Court of Appeals"
Senate
Judiciary Committee's March 2, 2007 letter
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TO BE POSTED:
TRANSCRIPT OF
SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CONFIRMATION "HEARING"
TRANSCRIPT OF
SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 SENATE CONFIRMATION
Senate Certification of Judge
Pigott's confirmation
Senate Attendance record
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CASE STUDY OF THE PRESS IN ACTION
--
ALL RECIPIENTS OF CJA's WRITTEN
TESTIMONY
&/or EYE-WITNESSES TO WHAT TRANSPIRED AT THE SEPTEMBER 14, 2006
"PUBLIC HEARING"
NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL
CJA's September
14, 2006 e-mail to John Caher, Bureau Chief
John Caher's September 14, 2006
e-mail acknowledgment
BUREAU CHIEF JOHN CAHER WAS AT HEARING --
& received, in hand, hard-copy of
CJA's testimony with appendix --
as well as
Syracuse Post-Standard editorial,
"A
Flawed Process: Judicial Nominees should be subject to more public scrutiny",
January 27, 2003
September 15, 2006
"Pigott Breezes Through Hearing"
(John Caher)
September 18, 2006
"Pigott Easily Confirmed for Court of Appeals"
(John Caher) News in Brief
CJA's
September 18, 2006 letter to Kris Fischer, Editor-in-Chief --
"RE: LETTER TO
THE EDITOR: 'Pigott Breezes Through Hearing' / 'Pigott Sails Through
Confirmation Hearing', September 15, 2006"
[copy to John
Caher]
THE NEW YORK TIMES
ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF MICHAEL COOPER WAS AT HEARING
--
&
received, in hand, a hard-copy of CJA's testimony with appendix --
as well as
copy of
Syracuse Post-Standard
editorial,
"A Flawed Process: Judicial Nominees should be subject to more public
scrutiny", January 27, 2003
September 15, 2006
"Pataki Chided Over State Court
Appointments" by Michael Cooper,
appearing together with Sam Robert's September 15, 2005
article,
"Pataki Appointments leave a Lasting Stamp"
CJA's September 26, 2006 memo to NYT Editorial Page Editor
Gail Collins & The Editorial Board --
"Resting Your Editorial Positions & Endorsements on
Documentary Evidence of Corruption in the 'Merit Selection'/Judicial
Appointments Processes -- Involving the Front-Runners in the Current Electoral
Races for New York Governor & U.S. Senator From New York: Eliot Spitzer &
Hillary Rodham Clinton
[indicated copies to Sulzberger, Keller,
Abramson, Michael Cooper, Danny Hakim, Jennifer
Medina,
Landman, Mullany, Taubman,
Hernandez, Hicks, Healy, Haberman,
Siegel, Calame, Fuchs]
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CJA's September
14, 2006 e-mail to Mark Johnson & Bureau Chief Michael Gormley --
"Subject:
Opposition to Senate Confirmation of Pigott to NY Court of Appeals"
REPORTER MARK JOHNSON WAS AT HEARING --
& received, in hand, a hard copy of
CJA's testimony with appendix --
as well as
Syracuse Post-Standard editorial,
A
Flawed Process: Judicial Nominees should be subject to more public scrutiny",
January 27, 2003
September 14, 2006
"High court pick backs separation of
powers"
(Mark Johnson)
September 15, 2006
"Senate
moves to require greater mental health coverage"
(Michael
Gormley)
GANNETT NEWS SERVICE
CJA's September
14, 2006 e-mail to Bureau Chief Jay Gallagher & reporter Yancey Roy --
"Subject: Opposition to Senate Confirmation of Pigott to NY Court of Appeals"
REPORTER YANCEY ROY WAS AT HEARING
September 15, 2006
"Heat put on judicial diversity"
(Yancey Roy)
September 16, 2006
"Mental health pact advances in Senate"
(AP-Michael Gormley)
CJA's
October 6, 2006 letter to Henry Freeman, Editor & Vice President of News/The
Journal News-Gannett --
RE: ELECTIONS 2006: Informing the Voters as to
Matters of Legitimate Public Concern: (1) CJA's June 20, 2006 memo-letter to
attorney general candidates Andrew Cuomo and Jeanine Pirro; (2) CJA's June 26,
2006 letter to gubernatorial candidate John Faso; and (3) CJA's February 3, 2006
letter to senatorial candidate John Spencer
ALBANY TIMES-UNION
CJA's September
14, 2006 e-mail to reporter James Odato & Albany Bureau Chief Jay Jochnowitz
-- "Subject: Opposition to Senate Confirmation of Pigot to NY Court of Appeals"
REPORTER RICK KARLIN WAS AT THE HEARING (sitting next to
Elena Sassower ! ) --
& received, in hand, a hard copy of CJA's testimony with
appendix --
as well as
Syracuse Post-Standard editorial, A Flawed Process:
Judicial Nominees should be subject to more public scrutiny",
January 27, 2003
LATER, Albany Bureau Chief Jochnowitz, in his
Capitol office, personally received a hard copy of CJA's testimony with appendix
--
as well as
Syracuse Post-Standard editorial, A
Flawed Process: Judicial Nominees should be subject to more public scrutiny",
January 27, 2003
September 15, 2006
"A voice of justice bids farewell"
(Michele Morgan Bolton, Rick Karlin)
September 14, 2006
"High court pick backs
separation of powers"
(AP-Mark Johnson)
September 15, 2006
"Senate moves to require greater
mental health coverage"
(AP-Michael Gormley)
September 16, 2006
"Pataki leaving legacy of
posts"
(James Odato)
CJA's September
28, 2006 letter to Rick Karlin --
"RE: The Timely, Electorally-Explosive, &
Readily-Verifiable Documentary Evidence of the Corruption of 'Merit
Selection to NY's Highest State Court: Bringing Down NY Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco, Would-Be Senate Minority Leaders Malcolm
Smith & Eric Schneiderman --and Would-Be Governor Eliot Spitzer, Among Others"
[indicated copies to Jay Jochnowitz,
James Odato, Elizabeth Benjamin]
SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD
CJA's September
14, 2006 e-mail to bureau reporter Erik Kriss --
"Subject: Opposition to
Senate Confirmation of Pigot to NY Court of Appeals"
REPORTER ERIK KRISS WAS AT THE HEARING --
& received, in
hand, a hard copy of CJA's testimony with appendix --
as
well as Syracuse Post-Standard
editorial, A Flawed Process: Judicial Nominees should be subject to more public
scrutiny", January 27, 2003
September 15, 2006
"High court pick backs separation of powers"
(AP-Mark Johnson)
September 16, 2006
"Mental health pact advances
in Senate"
(Michael Gormley)
BUFFALO NEWS
REPORTER TOM PRECIOUS WAS AT THE HEARING
--
& received, in hand, a hard copy of CJA's testimony with appendix --
as well as Syracuse Post-Standard
editorial,
A Flawed Process: Judicial Nominees should be subject to more public
scrutiny", January 27, 2003
September 15,
2006
"Pigott sails through Senate hearing"
(Tom Precious)
NEW YORK POST
CJA's September
14, 2006 e-mail to reporter Ken Lovett and State Editor Frederic Dicker
--
"Subject: Opposition to Senate Confirmation of Pigot to NY Court of Appeals"
LATER, in their Capitol office, Lovett and
Dicker personally received a hard copy of CJA's testimony with appendix --
as well as
Syracuse Post-Standard editorial, A Flawed Process:
Judicial Nominees should be subject to more public scrutiny", January 27, 2003
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
CJA's September
14, 2006 e-mail to reporter William Hammond --
"Subject: Opposition to
Senate Confirmation of Pigot to NY Court of Appeals"
LATER,
in his Capitol office, Hammond personally received a hard copy of CJA's
testimony with appendix -- as
well as
Syracuse Post-Standard editorial, A Flawed Process:
Judicial Nominees should be subject to more public scrutiny", January 27, 2003
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