Judges Keep Failing To Disclose Their Trips And Gifts. Don't Expect It To Stop Anytime Soon.

The federal judiciary is essentially exempt from any ethics enforcement.Kevin DietschThe judge overseeing Trump's classified documents case failed to disclose conference attendances.Even when judges have an ethics code, there is little effective enforcement, legal experts told BI.The experts said there are few foolproof remedies to ensure American judges follow the rules.Another day, another judicial ethics quandary.Federal Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed justice who tossed out the former president's classified documents case earlier this year, failed to accurately disclose her attendance at three conservative conferences, ProPublica reported Tuesday.The conference controversy casts new scrutiny on Cannon following a string of questionable decisions she made in the documents case, two of which have already been overruled by a circuit court."Judge Cannon keeps making mistakes both inside and outside the courtroom," Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, told Business Insider.

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    Judge Aileen Cannon, who tossed out Trump's classified docs case, failed to disclose her attendance at conservative conferences, ProPublica reported.
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