The SEC should wake up and start appointing its judges
That move would take off the table a common challenge brought by defense attorneys: that hiring judges is unconstitutional.
It is time for the Securities and Exchange Commission to catch up with modern times and start appointing its administrative law judges instead of hiring them like any other civil servant.
What might have worked well enough 80 years ago when the SEC's internal court system was mostly limited to reeli
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