Federal Courts’ Bad Apples Prompt Look at Orchard Fair Courts E-lert
Date of E-Lert – 11/03/08
Bibliographic Info:
Author: Meghan Gordon Source: Miller-McCune Date: 10/24/2008
As the federal judiciary "faces one of its heaviest
discipline caseloads in some time," article examines whether if "the extreme
examples of misconduct reveal a system that can find and weed out its bad
actors" or if "they just further erode trust in the federal courts." The case
of U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous has law scholars saying that the disciplinary,
and perhaps, the impeachment process "could prop up the public's perception of
the judiciary and its ability to police itself." Charles Geyh, a law professor at
Indiana University,
said that "the judiciary must be able to show that it has mechanisms in place
to hold bad judges accountable, and [that] the Porteous case serves as an
extreme example of that oversight."
