Chief Justice Roberts nominally oversees the federal judicial bureaucracy, but, as one federal judge tells me, the bureaucrats are “out of control.”
I’ve provided some examples recently, such as:
- The very one-sided panel on election litigation that the Federal Judicial Center arranged for all federal district judges right before the 2020 elections.
- The vulgar LGBTQ+ reading list that one mid-level officer at the Administrative Office of the United Stats Courts recommended to all federal judges.
And then there are the hijinx that federal judges, acting in their bureaucratic capacity, have engaged in, including:
- The draft opinion of the Committee on Codes of Conduct that bizarrely advised that it’s okay for judges to be members of the American Bar Association but not okay for them to be members of the Federalist Society. (The Committee abandoned that draft after I made it public.)
- The 2022 conference that John J. McConnell Jr., chief judge of the District of Rhode Island, sponsored that celebrated and endorsed critical race theory.
The Federal Judicial Center is now pushing Judge McConnell’s DEI agenda on federal judicial staffers throughout the nation. Here’s an email that an FJC staffer forwarded to me:
The Federal Judicial Center is proud to announce the next episode of Court to Court, featuring the District of Rhode Island.
Court to Court 80: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, has been a growing focus around the country. As civil rights activist Fred Grey said at the District of Rhode Island’s 2022 Racial and Social Justice Conference, “We’ve made measurable improvement, but where do we go from here?”
This special two-part episode of Court to Court demonstrates how putting DEI at the forefront of all court operations is having an enormously positive impact. The effect is not only on court personnel, but also on the general public that is served by our federal court system. DEI is continuing to change the face of the federal judiciary for the better. [Underlining added.]
I’ve left in the hyperlink to the episode that the FJC email contained, but it evidently works only for federal judicial employees. I sure hope that the episode is made public. In any event. it would be good if the Chief Justice could find the time to examine the FJC’s indoctrination campaign.
The Federal Judicial Center may be obscure, but that doesn’t mean it’s insignificant. Among other things, it does all of the federal judiciary’s in-house judicial education: “baby judge” school for new judges, circuit workshops, national appellate judges seminars, and more.
The FJC’s board consists of the Chief Justice, the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, and seven federal judges elected by the Judicial Conference of the United States. The board selects and oversees the FJC director.