Political Quotes

“I am back now for the 28th time in my series of speeches on the special interest scheme to capture the U.S. Supreme Court. What I would like to do today is to talk a little bit about the Judicial Conference and what the Judicial Conference has been doing to help clean up the mess at the Supreme Court. I suppose I should start with ``What is the Judicial Conference?'' The Judicial Conference is a body created by Congress around 100 years ago as the chief governing and policymaking body of the Federal judiciary. It basically supervises the administrative side, not the adjudicative side--the administrative side--of the judicial branch of government. It is chaired by the Chief Justice, and its membership is composed of the chief judges of each circuit and of the Court of International Trade. So it is a very distinguished group of very senior appellate judges and a district judge from each circuit--typically, a chief judge or a senior judge. Again, it is a pretty distinguished group. The Conference is responsible for, among other things, enforcing ethics rules, overseeing financial disclosures, and setting other policies across the Federal judiciary, which it mostly does through committees. It has committees on issues ranging from financial disclosure to things like courtroom security. The Judicial Conference has a very important role enforcing judicial ethics rules. Ethics rules are within its ambit of responsibility.…”