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Federal Judges On The All-Expenses-Paid Seminar Circuit
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
The injured victims of misconduct and I would obviously benefit if we could treat federal judges to all expense paid trips to seminars to hear about the daily grief experienced by someone in chronic pain or the economic deprivation caused when a family bread-winner is disabled. Unfortunately, someone from corporate America has already filled their seminar calendars.
MF Blog, an On-line magazine on the topics of politics, history, law, literature, and music, is concerned about federal judges getting all expense paid trips to hear seminars paid for by those with a pro-corporate bent.
Federal Judges should reject free trips to hear corporate agendas
I believe the current federal judicial code of conduct is sufficient to say the judges who have taken these expense paid trips have likely violated [their] conduct code.
MF asks a darn good question: Is it really too much for judges to pay for seminars for the improvement of law or continuing education instead of receiving a free trip to the mountains or the beach to attend a corporate funded seminar (and deduct it from their taxes as would a lawyer who paid for such a seminar)?
My question is: why should our federal judges be attending any seminar hosted by those with a pro-corporate bent?
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