OCTOBER 31, 1995 -- ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED STATES ABOLISHED FOR FIFTEEN (15) YEARS

In December 1988, my boss, United States Department of Labor Chief Administrative Law Judge Nahum Litt asked me to attend a meeting of the Administrative Conference of the United States,  After attending the two-day meeting at Departmental Auditorium, I returned to our office, at 1111 20th Street, N.W., former Peace Corps headquarters under President John F. Kennedy andt Lyndon B. Johnson.  Judge Litt asked what I thought of ACUS.  I replied, :"I think they're a bunch of fascists."  

He agreed.

So did Administrative Law Judge Charles P. Rippey.

I was honored to clerk for both Judge Rippey and for Judge Litt.

On October 31, 2005, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), a feckless reckless federal agency, was abolished.  

For fifteen (15) years ACUS ceased to exist.

Big victory. 

I was proud to be present at ACUS meetings and proud to see ACUS abolished.

I wrote an article about ACUS for Common Cause Magazine in 1989, in an article entitled, "Business As Usual.

ACUS became "the Heritage Foundation metastasized" under President Reagan.  ACUS members including Phyllis Scholarly rubber-stamped rebarbative recommendations to gut the Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act and to trash government transparency, while inflicting so-called Alternative Dispute Resolution on the American people.  It even sought to inflict performance evaluations upon independent Administrative Law Judges.  

While Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (former ACUS chair) tried to hornswoggle Congress into reviving ACUS.  They failed for fifteen (15) years.

Thanks to the Administrative Law Judges and others who opposed the "Heritage Foundation metastasized."

Thanks to my late friend and mentor, Nahum Litt.