The federal judiciary is perpetrating a fraud upon the public, chilling misconduct complaints and misleading us about the scope of the problem, LAP’s @alizashatzman.bsky.social argues in @abovethelaw.com abovethelaw.com/2026/03/just...
The federal judiciary is perpetrating a fraud upon the public, chilling misconduct complaints and misleading us about the scope of the problem, I argue in @abovethelaw.com @thelap.bsky.social 👇 abovethelaw.com/2026/03/just...
*Just 2* judicial law clerks filed complaints against federal judges last year. That’s not because judges don’t mistreat clerks: it’s because complaint mechanisms are broken.
LAP’s @alizashatzman.bsky.social explains why—and how to fix it.
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*Just 2* judicial law clerks filed complaints against federal judges last year. That’s not because judges don’t mistreat clerks: actually, it’s because complaint mechanisms are totally broken.
I explain why—and how to fix it. @thelap.bsky.social
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We have a fox 🦊 guarding the henhouse situation in the fed judiciary, where the same people make the rules, enforce the rules + discipline violations.
Congress must conduct oversight over the courts but they’ve abandoned that responsibility. @alizashatzman.bsky.social
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Allegations made most frequently were related to the merits of a decision or ruling (with 1,603 allegations), up 400 from 2024. Litigants accounted for 79% of complainants, followed by prison inmates at 16%. https://loom.ly/igYR4kQ
“What we should read into the judicial complaint numbers is they’re very low, and that's suspicious, because this is not a particularly safe work environment—one where employees lack basic workplace protections ,” @alizashatzman.bsky.social told @thenlj.bsky.social
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“What we should read into the judicial complaint numbers is they’re very low and that's suspicious, because this is not a particularly safe work environment," I told @thenlj.bsky.social
"This is a work environment where employees lack basic workplace protections.”
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Today! LAP’s @alizashatzman.bsky.social at Illinois Law
Today! @thelap.bsky.social at Illinois Law
We have a fox 🦊 guarding the henhouse situation in the fed judiciary, where the same people make the rules, enforce the rules + discipline violations.
Congress must conduct oversight over the courts but they’ve abandoned that responsibility. @alizashatzman.bsky.social
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🚨🚨Congress must act to address judicial corruption.
But they’ve TOTALLY abdicated their oversight responsibility over the federal courts, allowing abuses of power to continue at the highest levels of govt. @thelap.bsky.social
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“The headwinds against reporting misconduct are enormous,” LAP’s @alizashatzman.bsky.social told @bloomberglaw.com regarding fmr judge Mark Wolf, who stepped down late last year amid a misconduct investigation to evade accountability. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
“The headwinds against reporting are enormous,” I told @bloomberglaw.com regarding Mark Wolf.
Judicial misconduct investigations should be treated with the utmost seriousness, not swept under the rug by judges shielding colleagues from accountability.
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Federal Judge Accused Of Driving ‘Super Drunk’ Crashes Into Judicial Misconduct Complaint
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/federal-judge-accused-of-driving-super-drunk-crashes-into-judicial-misconduct-complaint/
The situation involving Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby evidences a wholescale judicial branch failure to hold judges accountable for misconduct and, rather, to attempt to sweep misconduct under the rug, LAP’s @alizashatzman.bsky.social argues in @abovethelaw.com .
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The judiciary’s shameful failure to act for 3 years, during which clerks were vulnerable to mistreatment, evidences willful ignorance + obstruction of justice, I argue in @abovethelaw.com abt Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby’s abusive workplace. @thelap.bsky.social
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🚨🚨Congress has abdicated its oversight responsibility over the federal courts youtube.com/shorts/Y6_jF...
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Congress has abdicated its oversight responsibility over the federal courts.
Judicial accountability is a congressional problem requiring congressional solutions.
If your member of Congress won’t act, fire them + elect someone who will. @thelap.bsky.social
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Reupping my @abovethelaw.com article about Judge Aileen Cannon’s workplace conduct for, well, reasons. 👀👀
Thanks for sending this around, Aliza
Former Massachusetts federal Judge Mark Wolf, who said he stepped down from the bench last year to freely raise concerns about President Donald Trump, created a stressful culture for his chambers staff, according to seven former employees.
“The headwinds against reporting misconduct are enormous,” I told @bloomberglaw.com of fmr judge Mark Wolf, who resigned late last yr amid a misconduct investigation.
Wolf’s despicable misconduct included *throwing things* ‼️at staff. @thelap.bsky.social
🚨🚨 Silence from members of Congress is DEAFENING 👀👀 @thelap.bsky.social
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“It should disturb all of us that federal judges so brazenly flout congressional authority, and that Congress allows them to do so," I told @legal.reuters.com @thelap.bsky.social
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New: A federal judge has acknowledged the environment in her chambers "resulted in an abusive workplace," following a misconduct complaint by a former clerk. A group says the jurist is Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby, who is overseeing SCOTUS lawyer Tom Goldstein's trial. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
