>G'Mornin' Anons… Another Day at the Office.
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>JUST IN - U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg rejects DOJ bid to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts from Florida probe.
Friday, April 11, 2025
Congrats to Judge Robin L. Rosenberg
She was named director of the Federal Judicial Center. From the Supreme Court website:
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., announced today that the Board of the Federal Judicial Center has selected United States District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg to be the twelfth director of the Federal Judicial Center.
Chief Justice Roberts, who chairs the nine-member Board of the Center, stated, “The Board selected Judge Rosenberg from a number of outstanding candidates. Judge Rosenberg is an experienced judge with a deep interest in education and research and a demonstrated commitment to the Center’s mission. The Board is confident that Judge Rosenberg will be a worthy successor to John Cooke, whom I thank for his seven years of dedicated service as the Center’s director.”
Upon being notified of her selection, Judge Rosenberg said, “I am honored to be selected and grateful for the opportunity to serve the Center and the judiciary in this new role. I strongly believe in the Center’s initiatives and its staff and will work tirelessly to support both as the director.” She plans to assume her new duties in August.
Pretty cool!
It's unclear whether this will open up a spot in our District or not. I've heard conflicting views. We shall see.
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The Southern District of Florida blog was started in 2005 byDavid Oscar Markus, who is a criminal trial and appellate lawyer in Miami, Florida. He frequently practices in federal courts around the country, including his hometown, the Southern District of Florida and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a former law clerk to then-Chief Judge of the District, Edward B. Davis.
>Congrats to Judge Robin L. Rosenberg
"Congrats"
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>Congrats to Judge Robin L. Rosenberg
Thursday, January 30, 2014
BREAKING – Robin Rosenberg being vetted for Ft. Pierce slot
This was the seat that was slated for William Thomas, but now the White House is vetting Robin Rosenberg. She was one of the three finalists for this seat back in 2012. One of the comments about Judge Rosenberg back then was:
Rosenberg is a Princeton grad and Duke Law grad. She clerked for the late S.D. Fla. District Judge James C. Paine and worked at DOJ in the Civil Rights Division. She was General Counsel at Slim Fast before the company sold and a partner at H&K. She's received strong evaluations in the bar poll in PBC since taking the bench 6 years ago. She is highly qualified to serve on the federal bench and within driving distance to Fort Pierce. Kudos to the JNC.
This piece, by Grier Pressly, gives a little more background:
Judge Robin Rosenberg brought her local roots and a uniquely diverse legal career to the bench when she was sworn in as one of our newest circuit judges on January 2, 2007. Government practice at the national and local level. Private practice in a big firm and a small firm. Corporate general counsel and executive leadership. Judge Rosenberg has done it all in a remarkably short period of time.
Born and raised in West Palm Beach, Judge Rosenberg attended the Palm Beach Day School and was a state-ranked junior tennis player before attending Andover for high school. Following her graduation from Princeton University, where she captained the women’s tennis team, Judge Rosenberg headed to Washington, D.C. where she worked for the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice,Princeton’s Office of University Affairs, and as a legislative correspondent to Senator Bill Bradley.
After three years in Washington, Judge Rosenberg decided that a career in law and public service was her calling. In 1989 Judge Rosenberg graduated with a law degree from Duke University’s School of Law and a M.A. degree in public policy from Duke’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Judge Rosenberg’s first job out of law school was an enjoyable one- year clerkship with Judge James Paine of the U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach. Judge Rosenberg returned to Washington in 1990 to go to work for the U.S. Department of Justice.
It was at the Department of Justice that Judge Rosenberg gained her employment law background, serving as a trial attorney for the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division, and met her future husband. Michael McAuliffe was also working as a trial attorney with the Department of Justice (in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division) in the early 1990′s.
>BREAKING – Robin Rosenberg being vetted for Ft. Pierce slot
Newly married in 1993, Judge Rosenberg and Michael moved to Pilsen, Czech Republic to support the Civic Education Project jointly sponsored by Yale University and Central European University. In Pilsen, Judge Rosenberg helped set up the graduate school of public administration at West Bohemia University while Michael helped establish only the country’s fourth law school at the same university.
After spending a rewarding, busy year in the Czech Republic, Judge Rosenberg and Michael returned to West Palm Beach to continue their legal careers and to raise their family.
Judge Rosenberg served as Assistant City Attorney for West Palm Beach for two years before going into private practice in the litigation department at Holland & Knight. Judge Rosenberg’s tenure as Vice President and General Counsel at Slim·Fast Foods Company provided the opportunity of executive experience and managing corporate issues involving virtually every area of the law.
In 2001, Judge Rosenberg and Michael went into practice together. At Rosenberg & McAuliffe, Judge Rosenberg focused her practice on employment litigation while also concentrating on her roles as a certified mediator and arbitrator with ARC Mediation, a business she co-founded. However, the tug to return to public service was too strong to ignore. Judge Rosenberg feels fortunate to have loved every step of her career, a career that she feels has prepared her well for the challenges that serving as a judge will bring. Judge Rosenberg wants the community to know that she is honored to serve as a judge of our circuit.
When Judge Rosenberg is not working, she can be found spending time with her parents and grandmother (who all still reside locally) and doing any number of outdoor activities with her husband and three children – Sydney (11), Madison (8) and Adin (6). Tennis, swimming, jogging, and biking, Judge Rosenberg tries to find time for outdoor activities seven days a week. While Judge Rosenberg enjoys hiking in the mountains with her family during summer vacations in Colorado, she is happy to leave the extreme climbing to Michael who has recently summitted Denali (Alaska) and Aconcagua (Chile).
Luckily, there won't be any confusion on the district bench with Judge Robin Rosenbaum as she is moving up to the Eleventh Circuit.
Congrats to Judge Rosenberg!
>, and as a legislative correspondent to SenatorBill Bradley.
==A Daughter's Hard Questions
Published Jan 23, 2000 at 7:00 PM EST
Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 9:20 PM EST
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It is somethingbill and Ernestine Bradley have rarely discussed, even with close friends. But as far back as 1991, when Bill Bradley briefly considered a run for the White House, the German question loomed. Ernestine had been born into Hitler's Germany; her father had been a Luftwaffe pilot. In the ruthless world of presidential politics, surely someone would whisper that Bill Bradley's wife was the daughter of Nazis.Troubled, she turned for guidance to a handful of close friends, including her confidant Arthur Hertzberg, a pre-eminent American rabbi and professor who lost much of his family in the Holocaust. Hertzberg told Bill Bradley not to worry about his wife's past, and he laid down a stern warning: "Anyone who wants to get anywhere near her on this issue will do it over my dead body. I know what a Nazi is. I owe the tragedy of my life to the Nazis. Ernestine is not a Nazi. She's one of us."
Few Americans have spoken out as forcefully against the Nazis and their legacy as Ernestine Schlant Bradley, Ph.D., a leading scholar on European literature and a professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey. But Bradley the private person has spent most of her adult life trying to sort through the complicated emotions about her family and her native land. She wonders, still, how her parents could not have known what was happening to the Jews. "It has taken me years," she says, "to face it directly."
But she has. In a cathartic book published last year, "The Language of Silence," Bradley condemns contemporary German writers for ignoring the crimes of the Holocaust. After all these years, she says, she has not found all the answers about her past, but she has finally found a way to give voice to the pain and anger that accompany her German roots. She found it partly through longstanding friendships with several Holocaust victims, like Hertzberg. Bradley has affected their views of history as much as they have hers. "I used to think, 'Germans have moral problems about what happened to the Jews? Let them hang themselves'," Hertzberg says. "But now I have come to the conclusion that I have to build bridges to them. That is what she taught me, without ever giving a speech."
Even by wartime standards, Bradley's childhood was tumultuous. Her mother had become pregnant at 18 by her lover, Sepp Misslbeck, but didn't tell him for fear it would ruin his ambition to see the world. Instead, she married the owner of a hair salon in Passau, her hometown straddling three rivers by the Austrian border. Born in 1935, Ernestine knew this man as her father right up until the time he went away to war. While he was away, Ernestine's mother ran into Misslbeck, a pilot on the western front, at a memorial service and confessed that Ernestine was in fact his daughter. Still in love with Misslbeck, she divorced her husband and they reunited. Ernestine never saw her previous "father" again, although he survived the war and remarried.
Among Ernestine's earliest memories, at about 8, is going with her grammar-school classmates to a makeshift war hospital, where they held teacups to the lips of wounded soldiers. When local men were killedas two of Ernestine's uncles werethe Nazis would print announcements saying that the parents were "in proud mourning." Her mother raged: "Proud? What is there to be proud about?" Bradley tells the story of her mother remarking to a friend in a movie theater that Hitler was mad. Someone overheard and she was arrested, and would likely have suffered a worse fate had she not been pregnant with one of Ernestine's two siblings.
After finishing college in Germany, she used her fluency in three languages to land a coveted job as a flight attendant with Pan Am in 1957. Then Ernestine married an American doctor, Robert Schlant, and moved with him to Atlanta. (They had a daughter in 1959 and divorced several years later.) By then, stories of death camps were well known. At Emory University, she studied under Walter Strauss, her literary mentor. It was not until the two became close that the German-born Strauss revealed that he himself had fled the Nazis and had seen the devastated survivors when he returned with the U.S. Army.
>==A Daughter's Hard Questions
They shared their stories, and in her visits with her parents, still in Germany, Bradley began to press harder for answers. She wondered why there had been no Jews in Passau. "Oh, yeah, there were Jews, and they had department stores," her mother told her. "Well, where did they go?" Bradley asked. Her mother replied: "I don't know, but they left."
Bradley's conversations with her father, who died in 1974, were more heated. Although he had flown Nazi planes, she says, he was not a member of the party. He admitted to her that he had seen a Jewish couple forced to wear a Star of David, and said he gave them his food-ration card. "He thought that was very nice," Bradley recalls with a trace of bitterness. "And I said, 'So you knew that they didn't get enough food.' 'Well, yeah,' he said. He knew that they were being harassed and all that."
When her father insisted he never knew of the concentration camps, Bradley would counter, "I cannot believe you didn't know." He never relented. Strauss recalls spending time with Bradley's father some 40 years ago. "He was a jolly Bavarian type who would have gone along with the leadership," Strauss says. "I think he probably had things he preferred not to talk about." Bradley seems to take comfort in the stories of other Germans who say they never knew of the camps just miles away. Does she now believe her father didn't know about them, either? "I don't know," she says quietly. "I think there were ways of not wanting to know."
It is a strange twist that Bradley seems most comfortable sharing her own thoughts about Nazi Germany with those who suffered its horrors. She says those friends have helped her confront the past because they, too, are absorbed in it. Rita Jacobs, a fellow professor and close friend whose mother's family was killed in the camps, remembers being nervous when she first discussed it with Bradley after they met in 1971. Later she traveled with Bradley to Germany and met her mother. "I know what your family went through," Bradley's mother told her. "I can't believe my country could do such a thing."
Rabbi Hertzberg, an authority on Jewish history, met Bradley when she was, in his words, "royally bored" at a fund-raiser during her husband's first campaign. They immediately began discussing European literature, and before long Hertzberg and his wife were sharing deep discussions with Ernestine over dinner while Bill was in Washington. As Ernestine struggled successfully to overcome breast cancer in the early 1990s, Hertzberg prayed for her at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. "She still doesn't know about that," he says.
Around that same time, Hertzberg introduced the Bradleys to Henry Kissinger over Sabbath dinner at his home. Wearing yarmulkes, or Jewish skullcaps, the senator and Kissinger chatted about Cambodia and other issues, and afterward Hertzberg and Ernestine huddled to talk. "We'll just have to wait them out," the senator told Kissinger. "Everyone knows Arthur and Ernestine have a special relationship." A few years ago, Hertzberg considered returning to Germany for the first time in 55 years to give a lecture. "Don't go," she told him. "The time is not right yet to make them look good." He didn't, but he will return this year, with her blessing.
Now Ernestine Bradley is parading through Iowa farms and New Hampshire meeting halls, finding time along the way to reconnect by phone with friends. In interviews, the issue of the Holocaust is always there, but she knows now that she cannot account for what her parents did or did not know. "If there are people who don't want to vote for Bill because of my background, that's what it is," she says. After decades of searching for peace, she is confident that she can handle the questions, even if she'll never have all the answers to give.
https://www.newsweek.com/daughters-hard-questions-158395
>BREAKING – Robin Rosenberg being vetted for Ft. Pierce slot
> Newly married in 1993, Judge Rosenberg and Michael moved to Pilsen, Czech Republic to support the Civic Education Project jointly sponsored by Yale University and Central European University.
>Ernestine had been born into Hitler's Germany; her father had been a Luftwaffe pilot. In the ruthless world of presidential politics, surely someone would whisper that Bill Bradley's wife was the daughter of Nazis.
whaddyaknow
Civic Education Project (CEP) was an international non-profit organization founded in 1991by a group of professionals and scholars from America. It was based at Central European University. It specialized in supporting of promotion of pluralism and international standards in social sciences education in transition countries.[1]Beginning in 1991 with the support from George Soros through his Open Society Institute (OSI), lecturers were sent to teach at eight universities in Czechoslovakia. This Visiting Lecturers program was expanded throughout Eastern Europe over the next several years. In 1996 the mission of the CEP was enhanced by the addition of the Eastern Scholars program, which assisted regional universities by funding local scholars and encouraging them to stay in academia. The CEP was successful, but in 2003, the OSI, the major funding source of the CEP, suggested that the CEP and Higher Education Support Program-HESP, a similar organization created by the OSI, merge. An independent evaluation was completed and recommendations for a possible merger were made, but the Board of Directors did not move ahead with the merger and, in the absence of their major funding source, decided to cease operation of the CEP in the post-communist countries in 2004.[2]
>whaddyaknow
Michael McAuliffe
Adjunct Professor
Degrees: J.D., College of William and Mary; BBA, University of Texas at Austin
Email: mfmcauliffe@wm.edu
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Michael McAuliffe has practiced law for over thirty years. He currently is in private practice in West Palm Beach, Florida. In 2008, Mr. McAuliffe was elected and served as the State Attorney for Fifteen Judicial Circuit (Palm Beach County) leading an office of 125 lawyers and 200 support staff. After leaving public service, Mr. McAuliffe served as general counsel for a global, privately held company. He has been a litigation partner at a major law firm and avisiting law professor in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s.Mr. McAuliffe also served as a supervisory assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of Florida and an honors program trial attorney in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
In addition to his adjunct professor role at the William & Mary Law School, Mr. McAuliffe has taught law at Duke University’s School of Law and George Washington’s University’s Law School.In 1993-94, he was a Civic Education Project (CEP) fellow and visiting professor of law at the University of West Bohemia Faculty of Law in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Mr. McAuliffe received his JD from the Law School at the College of William & Mary and his BBA, cum laude, from the Business Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. He ismarried to Robin Rosenberg, a US district judge, and they have three children.
>In 1993-94, he was a Civic Education Project (CEP) fellow and visiting professor of law at the University of West Bohemia Faculty of Law in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
>Checks out as PEDO PROTECTOR.
>Juvenile Justice FUCKERY
>"Non-Profit" during CLINTON years in the Czech Republic.
The History of the Civic Education Project
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“In the summer of 1990, six months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the revolutions that swept Central and Eastern Europe, I was in Prague where I met with some professors from Charles University and the Prague School of Economics. Most had been newly designated as professors of economics or political science. “You’re an American social scientist?” one asked me . “From Harvard? Would you be willing to come teach next semester?” It was an unusual request for a 60-year-old professor to ask of a 26-year-old graduate student. I politely declined, citing my own research plans, but promised to try to find a friend who could.
Some weeks later, I met a friend from my undergraduate years,Bill Antholis. I shared with Bill the request I had received. He, too, had made commitments for the next semester, so could not come. However, the more we talked, the more we realized that there was a real need for outside assistance as universities throughout the region sought to transform former departments of Marxism-Leninism into modern political science, economics and sociology departments. As we talked, gradually the outlines ofwhat is now the Civic Education Project took shape. Bill returned shortly thereafter to Yale University, where he was a graduate student, with the mission of securing Yale’s sponsorship for the initiative. I returned to Washington, D.C., for a few brief months that fall, with the aim of securing financial backing for a Civic Education Project. At the time, though there was in the United States great interest in and excitement about Central and Eastern Europe, few foundations or other organizations were prepared to make major commitments in the region. I made dozens of phone calls, but though I received many kind words of encouragement, I was miserably unsuccessful.
I remember vividly my frustration and despair. Why was I wasting my time on such an unrealistic and quixotic idea? My then fiancée (now wife) and her roommates with whom I was living, would get dressed every morning and go off to work, while I sat alone at home making my phone calls. Why hadn’t I instead worked these couple of months and earned some money to help pay for the upcoming year of research in Prague? It was a period of great self-doubt.
A few days before I returned to Prague, I had a meeting in New York that changed everything. A woman named Wendy Luers, who ran an organization that was then called the Charter 77 Foundation listened intently to what I had to say and instantly liked the idea. She recognized the great need for such a project.She arranged a meeting for me with George Soros,
the financier and philanthropist.
On the eve of my return to Czechoslovakia, Bill and I met with Mr. Soros in his Manhattan office located in a very elegant office building overlooking Central Park. He was at first quite skeptical about the idea, but offered to provide a few thousand dollars to get the project started.
In academic year 1991–92, the first year of the project’s operation, CEP brought over15 American lecturers to teach at eight universities. With George Soros’s encouragement and funding, the project was then expanded to Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine the following year with 75 lecturers teaching in all. At the outset we conceived CEP’s mission to be to provide Central and Eastern European University students with western-style introductory courses in economics, political science, sociology and law until local teachers emerged to fill the gap.
>The History of the Civic Education Project
We were a bit surprised then by the reactions of students to the first classes taught by CEP lecturers. We had focused on the materials to be taught – the importance of exposing students to the Western canon of thought that begins with Plato and Aristotle and runs through Dewey, Rawls and Focault – without thinking about the revolutionary nature of the method of teaching that these western-trained lecturers would bring with them. I remember sitting in on one of CEP’s very first classes and watching students’ awestruck reaction as their CEP lecturer, a young woman not more than five years older than they, sat down casually at a desk in front of them and began to ask them their views regarding the day’s topic. Her informal style, her lack of pretense, and her interest in them and their views flabbergasted the students. Other CEP lecturers soon reported much the same reactions from their students. It was clear that many students had never been asked their opinions before. Similarly, few had had the experience of being assigned projects before, where they had to take responsibility for putting something together themselves, from start to finish.
The institutions that Stalin imposed upon Central and Eastern Europe and within the Soviet Union transformed these societies, in that they became authoritarian in the extreme. The central committee of the communist party took decisions large and small and little dissent was tolerated. Individuals who dared to express their own views found themselves blacklisted and even imprisoned, their children prevented from attending university, and their actions closely watched by the secret police and an extensive network of informers.
The enduring legacy of these years is populaces who are distrustful of others, unaccustomed to and even fearful of expressing their own opinions, and habituated to having life decisions large and small dictated by others – in essence, societies permeated by vertical social relations. This mentality, I would argue, remains the greatest obstacle to democratic development and economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. To flourish, democracies require a spirit of reciprocity among individuals, free debate and collective rather than directive decision-making. Likewise, these same characteristics are the prerequisites for economic success in a highly competitive, knowledge-based global economy. As the rise in lean manufacturing over the last two decades demonstrates, the marketplace rewards companies and countries where decisions percolate from the bottom up rather than the top down.
This has been the most overlooked aspect of the transitions underway in post-communist societies. Much attention has been paid to the institutional framework of reform. The United States and West European governments have spent billions of dollars to send western advisors to the region to advise governments on how to liberalize markets, rewrite constitutions and legal codes, and privatize state-owned firms. Much less attention has been paid to civic education or education more generally. In fact, throughout the region, education budgets have been slashed significantly., University salaries have not kept up with those of other professionals.
In the last few years, there has been a rediscovery of the importance of civil society and some attention and resources devoted to ensuring its development. However, these efforts have been informed by a rather formalistic or mechanistic view of civil society. It is important that associations of various kinds – from environmental groups to boys’ clubs – be allowed to grow and prosper. They can serve as an important counterweight to government and thereby be a bulwark against tyranny.
But what is most critical to the long-term health of a democracy is the development of individuals who can think and act independently, individuals who are capable of processing the wealth of information that exists in this information age and arriving at informed judgements, with the skills and self-confidence to act upon these judgements. Ultimately, the critical intellectual, the social activist and the informed citizens constitute the most effective guarantors of a prosperous democracy.
I believe that the cultivation of such individuals should be the true mission of the Civic Education Project.”
Excerpts from Dr. Stephen R. Grand’s
keynote address at the Local Faculty Fellows
Roundtable,Ukraine, May 1999.
CEP started in 1991 with
15 Visiting Faculty Fellows in Czechoslovakia.
In 1998, CEP supported over 200 Fellows
in 19 countries.