The effort by liberal activist groups to shut down privately funded educational seminars for federal judges suffered a major setback when a federal judge dismissed an ethics complaint filed by Community Rights Counsel against the Honorable Danny Boggs, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In rejecting the complaint, Judge James Loken wrote, “it is the complainant who is undermining public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary, not the judges complained of.” For more, see here and here.