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  Justice Dept. Tries to Rebuke Federal Judges for Speaking to The Times

  Topics: Legal Ethics Topic

  Jeremy Fogel, a retired federal judge who consults with judges on ethics questions and who leads the Berkeley Judicial Institute, said he did not believe the judges had engaged in misconduct. The judges’ comments in the article, he added, “described breaches of professional obligations by government lawyers” and “appear to have been directed to matters within their purview as judges rather than broader policy questions.”

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  Justice Alito Recuses Himself Days Before Major Climate-Change Case

  Topics: Constitutional Law Topic

  Jeremy Fogel, a retired federal judge and ethics expert who leads the Berkeley Judicial Institute, said that he agreed with Justice Alito’s decision to recuse because, while Justice Alito doesn’t own stock in the companies directly involved, the court’s code of ethics applies to situations where a justice’s financial interests were likely to be affected by the outcome of a case.

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  Opinion: Federal judges are being targeted with pizza doxing; no one has been held to account

  “The persistence of coordinated attacks on the judiciary without visible consequence for perpetrators poses a grave threat to our constitutional order,” write Jeremy Fogel, executive director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute at Berkeley Law and Amrit Singh, professor of practice and faculty director of the Rule of Law Lab at New York University School of Law.

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  New Report Rings Alarm On Threats To Judicial Independence

  “It really is tremendously hard on almost anybody when you get the kinds of threats that people are getting now — the language and the specific threats that are made. The impact on the judges, the impact on the judges’ families and loved ones, the impact just on the routines of their life, I think that’s underreported,” said Jeremy Fogel, executive director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute which published the report “Threats to the Independence of the Federal Judiciary,” along with New York University School of Law’s Rule of Law Lab.

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  ‘Is This the Day I’m Going to Get Shot At?’ Lawyers Urged to Do More to Protect Judges

  Judge Jeremy Fogel, executive director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute said lawyers have “a direct stake in an independent judiciary and in the rule of law and in public confidence in the system” and can help explain concepts such as judicial independence, checks and balances and the constitutional role of the courts to the public. 

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