The good people at ProPublica remain on the Judges Gone Wild beat. Their newest topic, to the shock of completely no person, is Judge Aileen Cannon, the previous president*’s concierge decide down in Florida who at the moment is ready for an appeals court docket to throw her ludicrous dismissal of the Pool Shed Papers case again in her enamel.
Cannon went to an occasion in Arlington, Va. honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in accordance with paperwork obtained from the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University. At a lecture and personal dinner, she sat amongst members of Scalia’s household, fellow Federalist Society members and greater than 30 conservative federal judges. Organizers billed the event as “an excellent opportunity to connect with judicial colleagues.” A 2006 rule, supposed to shine a lightweight on judges’ attendance at paid seminars that would pose conflicts or affect choices, requires them to file disclosure types for such journeys inside 30 days and make them public on the court docket’s web site.
It’s not the primary time she has failed to completely adjust to the rule.
In 2021 and 2022, Cannon took weeklong journeys to the luxurious Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana, for authorized colloquiums sponsored by George Mason, which named its law school for Scalia due to $30 million in presents that conservative judicial kingmaker Leonard Leo helped manage.
The Sage Lodge will run you between from $698 and $1,063 an evening. Being a conservative authorized hack is a pleasant racket, at least for the perks. This community is so basically corrupt that its members probably don’t even understand it anymore. There is so little to restrain the corruption that it has come to appear like an entitlement of workplace. Hobnobbing in luxurious with oligarchs on whose behalf chances are you'll someday rule is now the identical as having a automotive and driver. And you’re doing so with full confidence that you just maintain a lifetime place, with no person holding you accountable for something. This is royalism, pure and easy.
Cannon’s annual disclosure type for 2023, which was due in May and provides one other probability to report presents and reimbursements from exterior events, has but to be posted. (Cannon reported the 2 Montana journeys on her annual disclosure types, however the required 30-day privately funded seminar reviews had not been posted. In 2021, Cannon incorrectly listed the college as “George Madison University.”)
Of course she did. She’s not precisely what George Madison and the remainder of the Founders had in thoughts for judges.
