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Skewing & Subverting the Electoral Process --
PRESS PROTECTIONISM OF
SENATORS CHARLES SCHUMER & HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
THE NEW YORK TIMES:
"Expect the World"
In "Clinton's Popularity Up in State, Even
Among Republicans" (New York Times, front-page metro,
2/22/05), Raymond Hernandez wrote that Senator Schumer won
re-election in November 2004 "with a record 71 percent of the vote".
This landslide victory was DIRECTLY attributable to Mr.
Hernandez and Times "protectionism" of Senator Schumer.
Had they discharged their journalistic responsibilities by
reporting on -- and examining -- CJA's
Paper Trail to Jail in the "disruption of Congress" case,
both
Senator Schumer & Senator Clinton would have been brought down in
a major political scandal, to the benefit of the People of the State
of New York and the nation.
CJA's
July 29, 2005 letter to NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller
on "Being True to the First Amendment by
reporting on the readily-verifiable evidence...of the
corruption of the processes of judicial selection & discipline and the
complicity of our highest public officers, including those seeking
re-election or further public office --
New York Home-State Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton...among them..."
Fn #7 (at p. 7): "Analysis of Times
coverage would show it is heavily weighted to reporting on speculation,
on political power brokers who support the incumbents or who are
commenting on their prospects, on the incumbents' fundraising, on their
politically-expedient posturings and positions -- for which, by
virtue of their public office, they get added free publicity -- and on
polls. The polls would tumble, as likewise the fundraising, if the
public were informed of the records of these public officers with
respect to judicial selection and discipline"
--accompanying analysis of
The Times'
knowingly false, defamatory, and cover-up column "When the Judge
Sledgehammered The Gadfly"
SEE:
CJA's "Paper Trail" of Times' suppression, protectionism, and
blackballing
SEE:
Paper Trail to Jail in
"Disruption of Congress" Case
CJA's
August 16, 2005 memo on "Collaboratively Moving Forward"
-- enclosing,
for NYT Publisher Sulzberger, as The NYT's "MOST IMPORTANT man", the
"MOST IMPORTANT primary source document" on the
Paper Trail to Jail in
"Disruption of Congress" Case:
CJA's March 26, 2003 written statement
particularizing the documentary evidence of NY Court of Appeals Judge
Richard Wesley's corruption, causing vast and irreparable injury to the
People of the State of New York & THE SUBSTANTIATING TWO
FINAL MOTIONS in Elena Ruth Sassower v. Commission:
(1)
Elena Sassower's October 15,
2002 motion for reargument, vacatur for fraud, lack of jurisdiction,
disclosure
& other relief
Exhibit A: Sassower's October 7, 2002 letter to Chief Motion Clerk
Exhibit B-1: Court of Appeals' September 12, 2002 decision/order (#581)
Exhibit B-2: Sassower's May 1, 2002 notice of motion for
disqualification/disclosure &
pp. 1-8 of moving affidavit
Exhibit C-1: Ct of Appeals' September 12, 2002 decision/order (#719)
Exhibit C-2: Sassower's May 1, 2002 notice of appeal
Exhibit C-3: Sassower's June 17, 2002 notice of motion for sanctions,
etc.
vs. Attorney General
Exhibit D: NYS Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers v. Kaye,
95
NY2d 556 (2000)
Exhibit E-1: Ct of Appeals' decision/order in Schulz v. NYS Legislature
(Mo.# 1075)
Exhibit E-2 Schulz v. NYS Legislature, 92 NY2d 917 (1998)
Exhibit F-1: Sims v. NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct,
62 NY2d 884
(1984)
Exhibit F-2: NY Criminal and Civil Bar Association v. NY,
46 NY2d 730
(1978)
Exhibit G: Robert Schulz' August 17, 1998 disqualification motion
in
Schulz v. NYS Legislature
(2)
Elena Sassower's October 24,
2002 motion for leave to appeal
Exhibit
A-1: Appellate Division's December 18, 2001 decision/order
Exhibit
A-2: Appellate Division's March 26, 2002 order
Exhibit
B-1: Ct of Appeals' September 12, 2002 decision/order on
disqualification (#581)
Exhibit
B-2: Ct of Appeals' September 12, 2002 decision/order on notice
of appeal and sanctions
(#719)
Exhibit C: Justice Wetzel's January 31, 2000 decision/order
Exhibit D: Justice Cahn's July 13, 1995 decision/order
in Doris L. Sassower v.
Commission
Exhibit E: Justice Lehner's September 30, 1999 decision/order
in Mantell v. Commission
Exhibit F: Appellate Division's November 16, 2000 decision/order
in Mantell v.
Commission
Exhibit G: CJA's March 3, 2000 letter to Chief Judge Kaye,
with inventory of
transmitted record
Exhibit H: 3-page analysis of Cahn's July 13, 1995 decision
in Doris
Sassower v. Commission
Exhibit I: 13-page analysis of Justice Lehner's September 30, 1999
decision in
Mantell v. Commission
Exhibit J: March 27, 2000 ltr of Counsel, Unified Court
System
Exhibit K: 1-page analysis of Appellate Division's December 16, 2000
decision in
Mantell v. Commission
Exhibit L-1: 19-page analysis of Appellate Division's December 18, 2001
decision
(1/7/02 notice-complaint)
Exhibit L-2: Commission's February 27, 2002 acknowledgment letter
Exhibit M-1: "I rise in defense of state courts", Chief Judge Kaye,
Daily News, 1/17/02
Exhibit M-2: "State judicial system is accountable to public",
Judge
Kaye, Albany Times Union, 2/10/02
Background Correspondence with THE NEW YORK TIMES Pertaining to
Senators Schumer & Clinton:
CJA's
June 11, 2003 memo-complaint to the Editorial Board
-- RE: "The Scandal of Federal Judicial Selection in the Second Circuit
and the Betrayal of the People of the New York by
New York Senators
Schumer and Clinton -- as Readily-Verifiable from the 'Paper
Trail' of Primary-Source Materials Posted on the Home-Page of
www.judgewatch.org"
CJA's e-mail transmittal message
SEE:
Paper Trail to Jail in
"Disruption of Congress" Case
CJA's
June 19, 2003 letter to Allan Siegal, Assistant Managing
Editor -- RE: "Ensuring Journalistic Integrity and Quality by Examining
How The New York Times Handles Complaints -- Starting with CJA's June
11, 2003 Memorandum-Complaint"
CJA's
June 24, 2003 memo to Allan Siegal, Editorial Board, & Washington
Bureau Chief Jill Abramson -- RE: "Superseding
June 19, 2003 letter on how The New York Times handles complaints"
CJA's July 31, 2003 e-mail
to Greg Brock, Washington News Editor
CJA's August 13, 2003
e-mail to Ass't to Philip Taubman, Deputy Editorial Page Editor
CJA's August 26, 2003 letter to Jill Abramson, Outgoing Washington Bureau Chief/Incoming Managing Editor
for Newsgathering -- RE: "Clarifying Your View of the Supervisory
Responsibilities of Times Editors -- Before CJA Takes its
Unresponded-to June 11, 2003 Memorandum-Complaint, Embodied and
Supplemented by its Unresponded-to June 19, 2003 Letter, to the
Soon-To-Be-Appointed Times Ombudsman/'Public Editor'"
CJA's
September 25, 2003 letter to Executive Editor Bill
Keller -- RE: (1) "Appointing a public editor/ombudsman who will not
be a meaningless camouflage for continuing 'journalistic fraud'; (2)
Providing a 'role model example' for handling CJA's unresponded-to
June 11, 2003 memorandum-complaint, in the absence of a public
editor/ombudsman -- or, alternatively, referring it to the public
editor/ombudsman as his/her FIRST order of business"
CJA's
October 13, 2003 letter to Executive Editor Bill
Keller -- RE: "(1) Misconduct complaint against Jonathan Landman for his
leading role as metro editor in the 'journalistic fraud' summarized by
CJA's June 19, 2003 letter, disentitling him to elevation to the
newly-created position of assistant managing editor for enterprise and
warranting his discharge; (2) Immediate investigation of the
politically-explosive metro-based corruption stories long-suppressed by
Mr. Landman -- beginning with the corruption of 'merit selection' to the
New York Court of Appeals, as documented by CJA's October 16, 2000 and
November 13, 2000 reports and the record then and thereafter in Elena
Ruth Sassower, Coordinator of the Center for Judicial Accountability,
Inc., acting pro bono publico v. Commission on Judicial Conduct of the
State of New York"
CJA's
November 1, 2003 letter to Executive Editor Bill Keller
-- RE: "Status of CJA's time-sensitive complaints against The Times
embodied by its September 25th and October 13th letters to you"
CJA's
December 1, 2003 letter to Public Editor Daniel Okrent
-- RE: "Bringing Long-Overdue Accountability and Responsiveness to The
Times"
CJA's
December 24, 2003 e-mail to Public Editor Okrent -- RE: "Center for
Judicial Accountability's Long-Standing & Unresponded-to Complaints,
embodied by our Unresponded-to December 1st Letter to You"
December 24, 2003 automated e-mail
acknowledgment -- "Thank you for your message"
December 24, 2003 e-mail from
Arthur Bovino/Office of Public Editor -- RE: "RE: Center for Judicial
Accountability's Long-Standing & Unresponded-to Complaints, embodied by
our Unresponded-to December 1st Letter to You"
CJA's
May 11, 2004 letter to Raymond Hernandez/Washington
Bureau -- RE: "Critically Examining the Record of
New York Senator
Charles Schumer on Judicial Selection, Discipline, and Constituent
Services Relating Thereto"
SEE:
"Paper Trail
to Jail" in the "disruption of Congress" case
CJA's May 11, 2004 transmitting e-mail to Raymond Hernandez (11:05 a.m.)
Raymond Hernandez' May 11, 2004 acknowledgments (11:42 a.m.) (12:36 p.m.)
CJA's May 11, 2004 fax to Raymond Hernandez (2:30 p.m.)
CJA's
May 17, 2004 e-mail to Raymond Hernandez -- RE: "'Judicial Scandal' --
By: Robert Novak"
CJA's May 24, 2004 memo
to Gerry Mulaney, Deputy Metro Editor for Politics -- "Proposal to You
and ALL Relevant Times Editors Involved in Election Coverage for a
Critical Examination of the Record of Senator Charles Schumer
on
Judicial Selection, Discipline, and Constituent Services Relating
Thereto"
CJA's
June 17, 2004 e-mail to Daniel Okrent (3:21 p.m.)-- RE: "Complaint
of Times' 'Protectionism' of NY Senator Schumer, Arising from
Multitudinous Conflicts of Interest..."
CJA's June 17, 2004 complaint to Public Editor Daniel Okrent
-- RE: "Times 'Protectionism' of New York Senator Charles Schumer,
Arising from its Multitudinous Conflicts of Interest -- Covering Up his
Pivotal Role in the Corruption of Judicial Selection and Discipline --
and Depriving New Yorkers of the Information Necessary to their Casting
an Intelligent Vote in the 2004 Senate Election"
June
17, 2004 automated e-mail acknowledgment (3:28 p.m.)
Arthur Bovino's June 17, 2004
e-mail to CJA (3:34 p.m.)
CJA's e-mail to June 17, 2004
Arthur Bovino (4:29 p.m.)
Arthur Bovino's June 17, 2004
e-mail to CJA (4:43 p.m.)
CJA's June 17, 2004 e-mail to Arthur
Bovino (5:56 p.m.)
Arthur Bovino's June 17, 2004
e-mail to CJA (10:12 p.m.)
CJA's
June 18, 2004 e-mail to Arthur Bovino
CJA's
June 20, 2004 e-mail to Daniel Okrent
June
21, 2004 e-mail from Daniel Okrent to CJA -- RE: "CJA"
CJA's June 22, 2004 e-mail to Daniel
Okrent (9:32 a.m.) -- RE: "Did You Yourself Actually Read CJA's June 17,
2004 Complaint -- and Review the Substantiating Cited Evidence"
Arthur Bovino's June 22, 2004 e-mail
to CJA (9:47 a.m.) -- RE: "RE: 'Did You Yourself Actually Read
CJA's June 17, 2004 Complaint -- and Review the Substantiating Cited
Evidence'"
CJA's June 22, 2004 e-mail to
Mr. Bovino (10:48 a.m.) -- RE: "Does Mr. Okrent Deny or Dispute the
Evidentiary Significance of the 'Paper Trail' -- Warranting Times
Coverage by ANY OBJECTIVE STANDARD"
Arthur Bovino's June 22, 2004 e-mail
to CJA (11:14 a.m.)
CJA's June 22, 2004 e-mail to
Arthur Bovino (3:07 p.m.) -- RE: "The 'Matter' is NOT 'CLOSED' -- and
Mr. Okrent's Response, as Public Editor, Should be (by) Letter Signed by
Him"
CJA's June 25, 2004
e-mail (cc) to Daniel Okrent, Gerry Mulaney, Philip Taubman, Ray
Hernandez, Neil Lewis -- RE: "Follow-Up Coverage: 'Disruption of
Congress' -- June 28th Sentencing"
Subsequent Correspondence with THE NEW YORK TIMES
SEE:
CJA's "Paper Trail" of Times' suppression, protectionism, and
blackballing
-- culminating in
Suing The New York
Times -- Verified Complaint
cc: CJA's February 3, 2006 letter to
John Spencer, candidate for U.S. Senate
-- "RE: Informing the Voters: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's
readily-verifiable corruption in office, as evidenced by her record on
judicial selection and discipline -- covered up by an election-rigging press"
--
Copies
to THE NEW YORK TIMES: Bill Keller, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Jill Abramson,
Allan M. Siegal, Jonathan Landman, Philip Taubman, Gail Collins (for sharing
with ALL Editorial Board members), Marek Fuchs, and Raymond Hernandez
CJA's April
11, 2006 e-mail to The New York Times' "Talk to the Newsroom: Executive Editor
Bill Keller" -- "RE: QUESTIONS FOR PUBLIC RESPONSE BY BILL KELLER"
"...as
to New York Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer, running to be New York's next governor in this year's
elections, and New York's Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton, running to be re-elected to the U.S. Senate this
year while eyeing the 2008 presidential race, WHAT WILL IT
TAKE for The Times to investigate their records with respect to the
processes of judicial selection and discipline -- and to report its
scandalous findings to the voting public?"
cc: CJA's June 19, 2006 letter to Kathleen Troia McFarland, Would-Be Republican
Nominee for the U.S. Senate from New York -- "RE: Informing the Voters: Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton's readily-verifiable corruption in office, as
evidenced by her record on judicial selection and discipline -- concealed by
John Spencer and an election-rigging press"
-- Copies to THE NEW YORK TIMES:
Patrick Healy, Bill Keller, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Jill Abramson, Allan
Siegel, Jonathan Landman, Washington Bureau, Editorial Board, Ray
Hernandez, Marek Fuchs
cc:
CJA's June 19, 2006 letter to Jonathan Tasini, Would-Be Democratic Nominee
for the U.S. Senate from New York -- "RE: Informing the Voters: Senator Hillary
Rodham Clinton's readily-verifiable corruption in office, as evidenced by
her record on judicial selection and discipline -- covered up by an
election-rigging press, including The New York Times"
--
Copies to THE NEW YORK TIMES: Patrick Healy, Bill Keller, Arthur
Sulzberger, Jr., Jill Abramson, Allan Siegel, Jonathan Landman,
Washington Bureau, Editorial Board, Ray Hernandez, Marek Fuchs
CJA's August 25,
2006 memo to Editorial Page Editor Gail Collins, Editorial Board,
Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Executive Editor Bill Keller, Managing
Editor Jill Abramson -- "RE: Your Upcoming Editorial
Endorsements and On-Going Election Coverage: The Races for New York
Governor, U.S. Senator from New York, and New York Attorney General"
-- indicated copies to Alan M. Siegel,
Byron Calame, Marek Fuchs, Jonathan Landman, Philip Taubman, Gerald
Mullany, Raymond Hernandez, Jonathan P. Hicks, Patrick Healy, Clyde
Haberman
SEE:
Elections 2006: Informing the Voters
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LEGAL TIMES:
CJA's August 9, 2005 memo
to Tom Schoenberg
-- "RE: DISCHARGING YOUR JOURNALISTIC
RESPONSIBILITIES BY FOLLOW-UP REPORTING ON THE 'DISRUPTION OF CONGRESS'
CASE"
THE NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL:
CJA's August 28,
2006 memo to Editor-in-Chief Kris Fischer, Executive Editor Jeff Storey,
Dan Wise, Senior Editor, & Albany Bureau Chief John Caher --
"RE: Your Upcoming Editorial Endorsements and On-Going Election
Coverage: The Races for New York Governor, U.S. Senator from New York,
and New York Attorney General"
SEE:
Elections 2006: Informing the Voters
CJA's August 9, 2005 memo
to Tom Perrotta -- "RE: DISCHARGING YOUR JOURNALISTIC
RESPONSIBILITIES BY FOLLOW-UP REPORTING ON THE 'DISRUPTION OF CONGRESS'
CASE"
CJA's Letter to
the Editor, May 19, 2004
"...Judge
Wesley's 'documented corruption' -- covered up by the bar associations,
Senators Schumer, Clinton, and the Senate Judiciary Committee,
among others -- is a major political scandal, yet to be reported.
Its explosive ramifications would rightfully derail Senator Schumer's
re-election campaign and Senator Clinton's talked-about future candidacy
for president. Fortunately, readers do not have to rely
on the Law Journal, but can verify this for themselves. The
substantiating primary source documents -- including the unrefuted and
irrefutable March 26, 2003 statement -- are posted...on CJA's
website..."
ROLL CALL:
CJA's August 9, 2005 memo
to Jennifer Yachnin --
"RE: DISCHARGING YOUR JOURNALISTIC
RESPONSIBILITIES BY FOLLOW-UP REPORTING ON THE 'DISRUPTION OF CONGRESS'
CASE"
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:
CJA's August 9, 2005 memo
to Steve Goldstein -
"RE: DISCHARGING YOUR JOURNALISTIC
RESPONSIBILITIES BY FOLLOW-UP REPORTING ON THE 'DISRUPTION OF CONGRESS'
CASE"
THE WASHINGTON POST:
cc:
CJA's August 9, 2005 memo
to Henri Cauvin, Bill Miller, Eric Pianin, Charles Babington, Shailagh
Murray, Michael Getler/Ombudsman -
"RE: DISCHARGING YOUR JOURNALISTIC
RESPONSIBILITIES BY FOLLOW-UP REPORTING ON THE 'DISRUPTION OF CONGRESS'
CASE"
THE VILLAGE VOICE:
CJA's
Letter to the Editor, February 16, 2005
"...Senator Schumer is a Harvard Law School
graduate, Senator Clinton a graduate of Yale Law School.
What were their findings of fact and conclusions of law
with respect to what you describe as the '27-page
memorandum that outlined, in meticulous detail, the center's
opposition'? And why has the Voice, which has a copy of
that March 26, 2003 memorandum and the pertinent substantiating evidence
of Judge Wesley's misconduct in the commission case and in an earlier
case challenging the constitutionality of billions of dollars of New
York bonds, not itself come forward with findings of fact and
conclusions of law?"
CJA's August 28, 2006 memo to Incoming Editor-in-Chief
David Blum, Interim Editor-in-Chief Ward Harkavy, Executive Editor Laura
Conaway, Senior Editor Wayne Barrett, Kristen Lombardi, Nat Hentoff, Tom
Robbins
-- "RE: Your Upcoming Editorial Endorsements and On-Going Election
Coverage: The Races for New York Governor, U.S. Senator from New York,
and New York Attorney General"
SEE:
Elections 2006: Informing the Voters
CJA's
September 8, 2006 letter to Wayne Barrett, Senior Editor, The Village
Voice; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism --
RE: ELECTIONS 2006: Investigative Reporting of the Readily-Verifiable
Evidence of Systemic Governmental Corruption Directly Germane to the Races for
New York Attorney General, Governor, and U.S. Senator from New York -- With
Questions for the Candidates"
cc: CJA's
September 15, 2006 memorandum to Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism -- "RE: Providing Columbia's Journalism Students with
Electorally-Significant Story Proposals for Investigative Coverage --
and Developing Critical Scholarship on Press Performance & Our
Endangered Democracy"
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FOR OTHER PRESS
SEE:
Elections 2006: Informing the Voters
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