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Pete Sessions: “I hate to ask this to be delayed. But he is a sitting Federal judge. It is not messing up his Federal practice in a…”

On the recordMarch 8, 2000
I hate to ask this to be delayed. But he is a sitting Federal judge. It is not messing up his Federal practice in a couple or three weeks to get to the bottom of this and how the case was assigned, because it didn't come out of an indictment by a grand jury, it came out of the handling by the prosecutor. In my experience, those cases are not randomly assigned. Quite often, they are taken directly by the prosecutor to the judge. I would like to have somebody under oath explain to me how the Hsia case and the Huang case went to Judge Paez. Out of 34 judges, they went to Judge Paez. That doesn't strike well with me. I would like to know that before we go forward with the vote. If he has a good answer, I am willing to accept it.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

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Questioning the assignment of cases to Judge Paez during a Senate floor discussion.

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