To: one_less who wrote (720975 ) 6/13/2013 11:23:23 AM From: tejek Read Replies (2) | Respond to One of your people has spoken.Judge Jones' troubles intensify Steve Benen learned last week that Judge Edith Jones of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is under fire after a Federalist Society speech she delivered in February. According to affidavits from attendees, Jones said that racial groups like African Americans and Hispanics "do get involved in more violent crime" than "Anglos."alleged to have said that the defenses often offered in capital cases, including mental retardation and systemic racism, were "red herrings," and Mexicans would prefer to be on death row in the United States rather than in prison in Mexico.taken quite seriously .Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court formally ordered on Wednesday that a rare public judicial misconduct complaint against 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Edith Jones be reviewed by officials in a different circuit -- one based in the nation's capital. What's more, this news comes a day after Ian Millhiser reported , "In a likely sign that the court is taking the complaint seriously, a panel that includes both Jones and the court's Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart just ordered a death penalty case transferred to another panel.... [T]his court's order may simply rest on the idea that a panel of three judges, one of whom is currently standing in judgment of the other and a third who has a history of tension with the second, is not likely to give the impression of impartial decision making."
