Nobody can recall any previous mass request for such disclosures by federal judges

[JBA]

Dems, going fishing. This will be Ugly.



http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak16.html


On May 5, the U.S. Judicial Conference in Washington received a request from a Mike Rice of Oakland, Calif., for the financial disclosure records of U.S. Appeals Court Judge Edith Jones (5th Circuit) of Houston. A 20-year veteran on the bench, Jones is a perennial possibility for the U.S. Supreme Court. The demand for her personal records is part of a major intelligence raid preceding momentous confirmation fights in the Senate.


………. Craig Varoga, a former aide to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid…….


………… petition requested financial information on 30 appellate judges in all but one of the country's judicial circuits, including nine widely mentioned Supreme Court possibilities. Varoga & Rice's client: NARAL Pro-Choice America……….

……….. Nobody can recall any previous mass request for such disclosures by federal judges. This intelligence raid is financed by the abortion lobby,…….

………. Varoga, a former communications director for Reid, was national field director for Gen. Wesley Clark's 2004 presidential campaign. While Rice bills himself as an "expert" on "state public-records laws," his special field has been negative research probing the background of political foes……

[Eagler]

it is all they can due as they have been reduced to the insignificant group of blowhards many of us knew them to be all along