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Far-Left Academics Wrote Scientific Advisory Guide Used To Influence Judges

A Federalist investigation found that a key section of a manual advising federal judges on science-related matters was authored by Democrat donors.

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The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) casts itself as an ostensibly nonpartisan research agency that provides “objective information and education” to America’s judicial system. So, why did it permit major Democrat donors — several of whom openly espouse radical leftist views — to author part of an FJC manual advising judges on scientific matters before the bench?

The new discovery comes as part of The Federalist’s investigation into the taxpayer-funded FJC. The federal agency has come under fire in recent years following reports about left-wing climate activists’ growing bid to influence federal judges on environmental-related cases through the Federal Judicial Center.

Just last week, The Federalist revealed how the authors of a since-retracted “Reference Guide on Climate Science” contained in the FJC’s latest Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence are radical leftists. This reporting came months after it was discovered that the climate section of the manual — which advises federal judges in their assessment of science-related matters in cases — was littered with citations and footnotes to left-wing climate advocates.

As it turns out, however, that was only the tip of the iceberg.

A Federalist inquiry into the manual’s “Reference Guide on Forensic Feature Comparison Evidence” shows that the section’s authors have made numerous financial contributions to Democrats and Democrat-aligned entities in years prior. Several of these authors have not been shy about espousing their left-wing ideology, including one who touts support for abortion and transgenderism.

Valena Beety is listed as a law professor at Indiana University (IU) and is described as an “innocence litigator” and a former federal prosecutor. She previously served as the founding director of West Virginia University College of Law’s “West Virginia Innocence Project,” which “aims to serve and to free people who are in prison for crimes they did not commit” and seeks “to fix the problems that lead to wrongful convictions in our justice system, and focus on those issues important to the people of West Virginia.”

In addition to writing research articles and works about “wrongful convictions, forensic evidence, prosecution, and incarceration,” Beety is the author of an upcoming book titled, Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity. A description provided on her IU bio says the book “uses the examples of innocent women who have spent decades in prison for ‘no crime convictions’ and the........

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