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131 FEDERAL JUDGES BROKE THE LAW BY HEARING CASES WHERE THEY HAD A FINANCIAL
INTEREST


THE JUDGES FAILED TO RECUSE THEMSELVES FROM 685 LAWSUITS FROM 2010 TO 2018
INVOLVING FIRMS IN WHICH THEY OR THEIR FAMILY HELD SHARES, A WALL STREET JOURNAL
INVESTIGATION FOUND

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Sept. 28, 2021 9:07 am ET

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More than 130 federal judges have violated U.S. law and judicial ethics by
overseeing court cases involving companies in which they or their family owned
stock.

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that judges have improperly failed to
disqualify themselves from 685 court cases around the nation since 2010. The
jurists were appointed by nearly every president from Lyndon Johnson to Donald
Trump.

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