A federal judge violated judicial ethics rules by publishing an essay in the New York Times criticizing conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for allowing provocative flags including an ...

Judges aren’t politicians and shouldn’t behave like them. When they do, questions about their impartiality naturally arise. Consider two troubling recent cases where other judges unfairly echoed ...

The case was then transferred to the Virginia-based 4th Circuit Judicial Council, where Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Albert Diaz, a Barack Obama appointee, presided over the matter. Diaz brought the ...

So, I guess the question is whether the essay was "inappropriate." Albert Diaz, the Chief Judge of the Fourth Circuit, concluded it was. In Diaz's view, "the essay expressed personal opinions on ...

Flying it “then and in that way was improper,” he wrote. The matter was assigned to Chief Judge Albert Diaz of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who forwarded the complaint to Ponsor ...