131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest

Not only do members of the Federal Reserve Board and Presidents of regional Federal Reserve Banks had conflicts of interest trading in stocks etc.!

"... A WSJ investigation found that 131 judges have improperly failed to disqualify themselves from 685 court cases around the nation since 2010.

Alerted to the violations by the Journal, 56 of the judges have directed court clerks to notify parties in 329 lawsuits that they should have recused themselves. That means new judges might be assigned, potentially upending rulings. The hundreds of recusal violations breach a bedrock principle of American jurisprudence: No one should be a judge of his or her own cause. Congress first laid out that principle in 1792 to guarantee litigants an impartial judge and reassure the public that courts could be trusted. ..." (Source)

131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest - WSJ 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