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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_5862.shtml
opps. Ty's hero has problems. What is most rich is how the Dems keep saying that it's Bush who has thrown out "the way we do things."
- U.S. District Judge Who Presided Over Government Wiretapping Case May Have Had Conflict of Interest
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and judicial abuse, announced today that Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, who last week ruled the government’s warrantless wiretapping program unconstitutional, serves as a Secretary and Trustee for a foundation that donated funds to the ACLU of Michigan, a plaintiff in the case (ACLU et. al v. National Security Agency). Judicial Watch discovered the potential conflict of interest after reviewing Judge Diggs Taylor’s financial disclosure statements.
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Talk about tenuous. There is no conflict of interest under the facts described.
There may be a grounds for recusal, but even that is thin. What if a judge had made a charitable donation directly to the ACLU. Should she recuse herself in that instance? I think not. Here it's even more tenuous--she has a leadership role in a foundation that decided to give money.
