Source:
Legal Newsline6/18/2008
by Chris Rizo
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has named a panel to conduct the judicial misconduct investigation of 9th U.S. Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski ...
The Kozinski investigation will be handled by the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit's Judicial Council, led by Chief Judge Anthony Scirica.
On the panel will be 3rd Circuit Judges Marjorie Rendell and Walter Stapleton; U.S. District Chief Judge Harvey Bartle III of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and Chief Judge Garrett Brown of the District of New Jersey.
Kozinski was appointed to the San Francisco-based appeals court by President Ronald Reagan in 1985. He is considered by many legal observers a judicial conservative on most issues.
Read more:
http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/213568-east-coast-judge-to-lead-kozinski-inquiry
The "investigation" will be controlled by wingnuts:
Scirica, Anthony Joseph
... Nominated by Ronald Reagan on June 19, 1984 ...
http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2128Rendell, Marjorie O.
... Nominated by William J. Clinton on November 19, 1993 ...
http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=1992Stapleton, Walter King
... Nominated by Richard M. Nixon on September 22, 1970 ...
http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2275Bartle, Harvey III
... Nominated by George H.W. Bush on May 15, 1991 ...
http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=111Brown, Garrett E. Jr.
... Nominated by Ronald Reagan on October 23, 1985 ...
http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=283Related link:
Alex Kozinski suspends L.A. obscenity trial after conceding his website had sexual image
By Scott Glover
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 12, 2008
... Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, granted a 48-hour stay in the obscenity trial of a Hollywood adult filmmaker after the prosecutor requested time to explore "a potential conflict of interest concerning the court having a . . . sexually explicit website with similar material to what is on trial here" ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-me-kozinski12-2008jun12,0,7817399.storyrelated LBN threads:
9th Circuit's chief judge posted sexually explicit matter on his website
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x33479389th Circuit judge had sexual images on Web page
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3348334Judge invites probe into his steamy Web site
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3351008