Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, said the bill “makes incremental but necessary progress toward accountability by building on federal statutes that already prohibit judges from deciding cases in which they have a personal financial stake in the outcome.”
December 01, 2021 at 07:02 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to require the federal judiciary to make judges’ financial disclosures publicly available online, in response to a stunning report that revealed more than 130 judges heard cases in which they had a financial holding.
The bipartisan Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act passed the House 422-4. A companion bill has also been introduced in the Senate, but has not yet been taken up.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, in December 2019. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
