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How CRC Exposes Judicial Lobbying by Special
Interests
In early 1998, Community Rights Counsel (CRC),
then a fledgling organization with no paid staff, discovered
and broke the remarkable news that each year dozens of federal
judges were being wined and dined at anti-environmental "junkets
for judges." Subsequently, CRC started digging where
no one had ever dug before: we started routinely studying
the financial disclosure forms filed each year by our nation's
federal judges. Through this painstaking review of approximately
10,000 disclosure forms, CRC has documented dozens of startling
cases of conflict of interest on the federal bench involving
both junkets and judicial stock holdings. This work has generated
hundreds of news stories, including an ABC News 20/20 exposé
and a series of front-page stories in The Washington Post.
It has triggered Congressional legislation, reform efforts
within the judicial branch, and dozens of editorials in national
papers.
For the latest information on CRC's efforts to ban judicial junkets, click here.
For more information on CRC's effort to prevent
corporate judicial lobbying at judicial junkets, click
here.
For more information on CRC's work on exposing
stock conflicts, click
here.
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