The Supreme Court's order denying Geoffrey Fieger's motion to recuse five of its Justices, discussed recently, is not available online, for unknown reasons. We were recently able to secure a copy from a colleague, and have posted the OCR'ed text at this site. The tables included in Appendix C do not display properly, but otherwise the quality of the text is satisfactory.
As we previously noted, Justice Weaver provides some details of the contributions in question in the course of urging that Michigan review the system of electing Supreme Court Justices. She notes that Fieger contributed $200 to her 2002 re-election campaign.
That is, in fact, only part of the story. Fieger, as a politically active attorney, has not surprisingly made substantial contributions to numerous candidates in the last decade. The Follow the Money site discloses $400 in contributions to Weaver's campaign made personally by Fieger in 2002, and another $1,200 by Fieger employees. It also discloses much more substantial contributions to the unsuccessful Supreme Court candidates (nominated by the Democrats) in 2000 and 2002.
The last time one of the "liberal" Justices was up for re-election, in 1996, Fieger contributed the statutory maximum of $3,400 to Justice Marilyn Kelly. Again, that was entirely legal and above-board, but Fieger has never suggested that Kelly should not hear his cases on account of his contribution to her campaign.
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