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</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Tuesday, while most court-watchers were fixated on the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/25/3418675/justice-kennedy-thinks-hobby-lobby-is-an-abortion-case-thats-bad-news-for-birth-control/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">high profile <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Hobby Lobby litigation</a>, a panel of three judges just a few miles away heard a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/24/3241091/how-two-republican-judges-could-strip-health-care-from-65-million-people/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">much more sweeping attempt to destroy the Affordable Care Act</a>. Should this lawsuit succeed, however, much more will fall than a single contentious law. If it succeeds, it could completely destroy much of the health insurance market and throw millions of Americans’ health care into chaos — and at least one judge who heard the case, Judge Raymond Randolph, appears <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/25/are-obamacare-subsidies-now-in-jeopardy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">poised to make this chaos a reality</a>. (Lest there be any doubt, the lawsuit is rooted in a flawed legal theory. To learn why, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/24/3241091/how-two-republican-judges-could-strip-health-care-from-65-million-people/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">read this piece</a> — or, better, <a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5543968478140712755&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">read a federal trial judge’s decision rejecting the plaintiffs’ legal theory</a>.)<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Affordable Care Act gives states a choice to either set up their own health insurance exchange or to allow the federal government to do it for them. The theory of this lawsuit, named <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Halbig v. Sebelius, is that the residents of the 34 states with federally-run exchanges are not eligible for subsidies to help them pay for insurance. On Monday, we reported that “an estimated <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/24/3241091/how-two-republican-judges-could-strip-health-care-from-65-million-people/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">6.5 million fewer people will obtain health coverage by 2016</a>, and many of those who do obtain it will have to pay much more to do so” if the courts strip them of the subsidies they are entitled to under Obamacare.<span id="trigger-slidedown" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.4400005340576px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The reality, however, could be much worse. If the courts strip health care consumers in these 34 states of these insurance subsidies, the result is likely to be a phenomenon known as an “adverse selection death spiral” — a chain reaction where higher premiums drive consumers from the insurance market, which leads to higher premiums, which drives even more people from the insurance market.<div id="in-content-ad" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.4400005340576px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To understand why, it’s important to first understand how insurance companies think. Insurers are more or less in the business of making predictions. Their job is to predict how much money they are likely to have to pay to their customers in any given year, and then charge a premium that is large enough to cover all of those claims plus a little extra money so that the company can make a profit. So for example, if a health insurance company serves 100 patients, and those patients’ medical bills are likely to total $1 million per year, then the insurer might charge each of those patients an annual premium of $10,300. That way, the insurer will have enough income to cover their customer’s costs, plus about $30,000 left over as profit. (In reality, insurers also have to cover their administrative costs, so premiums would be somewhat higher).<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now imagine the same scenario, but with one difference. In the real world, health costs are not spread evenly though all of an insurance company’s customers. Some have chronic illnesses that lead to predictable costs, others have sudden medical emergencies, and still others may be healthy and seek no medical care for an entire year. So let’s imagine that the hypothetical insurer described above has 20 customers that are in perfect health and who never, ever ask their insurer to pay for medical care. Now imagine that these customers decide that they would rather spend their insurance premiums on something else, so they drop out of the insurance pool. Now the insurer still has to cover $1 million worth of claims, but they only have 80 customers who can help them cover their costs, so premiums would have to go up to $12,875 per year.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This phenomenon, where healthy people drop their insurance (or do not obtain it in the first place), while sick people remain insured to cover their higher medical bills, is known as “adverse selection.” An adverse selection death spiral happens when the higher premiums caused by healthy people dropping out of the market lead to even more people dropping out, which leads to higher premiums, which leads to more people dropping out — and so on and so forth until the entire market collapses.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Which brings us back to <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Halbig and Judge Randolph’s reckless views. If the courts cut off subsidies to millions of insurance customers, that’s going to make the out of pocket costs paid by those customers much more expensive. A family of four in Dallas, for example, that earns $50,000 a year would <a href="http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/#state=tx&zip=75093&locale=Collin&income-type=dollars&income=50000&employer-coverage=0&people=4&alternate-plan-family=individual&adult-count=2&adults%5B0%5D%5Bage%5D=30&adults%5B0%5D%5Btobacco%5D=0&adults%5B1%5D%5Bage%5D=30&adults%5B1%5D%5Btobacco%5D=0&adults%5B2%5D%5Bage%5D=21&adults%5B2%5D%5Btobacco%5D=0&child-count=2&child-tobacco=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">see their premiums nearly triple if judges take their subsidies away</a>. Those kinds of premium spikes will cause a whole bunch of healthy people to leave the insurance market — potentially setting off a death spiral. Indeed, as a brief filed by several economists in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Halbig case explains, the resulting premium spikes would render insurance “<a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Halbig-Economists-Brief.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">unaffordable for more than 99 percent of the families and individuals eligible for subsidies under the current IRS rule</a>.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As previously explained, Judge Randolph, a George H.W. Bush appointee, left little doubt at Tuesday’s hearing that he would <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/25/are-obamacare-subsidies-now-in-jeopardy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">trigger this death spiral and let the consequences be damned</a>. A second judge, Carter-appointee Harry Edwards indicated that he would not repeal the subsidies. That leaves Judge Thomas Griffith, a George W. Bush-appointee, as the only member of the panel who seemed uncertain.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.960000038147px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If Griffith votes with Edwards, he will allow the Affordable Care Act to move forward as it was intended — as the economist’s brief explains, the only way to accept Randolph’s theory of the case is if you believe that “Congress sought to legislate into existence a massive new social program that it understood would immediately fail.” Should Griffith side with Randolph, by contrast, he will be voting to do a whole lot more than undermine Obamacare — he will be voting to completely collapse the individual insurance market in many states.</div><div>
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</div><div>Arthur Raymond Randolph (born November 1, 1943) is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" title="United States federal judge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">federal judge</a> on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a>. He was appointed to the Court in 1990 and assumed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status" title="Senior status" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">senior status</a> on November 1, 2008.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3000001907349px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.3000001907349px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#Biography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 Biography</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#Notable_cases" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 Notable cases</a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#Guantanamo_Bay" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2.1 Guantanamo Bay</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#Biography" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Biography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A.Raymond_Randolph&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Biography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Randolph was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside,New_Jersey" title="Riverside, New Jersey" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Riverside, New Jersey</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#cite_note-fjc-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> and grew up in two towns in New Jersey, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra,New_Jersey" title="Palmyra, New Jersey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Palmyra</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendora,New_Jersey" title="Glendora, New Jersey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Glendora</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>He earned a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">B.S.</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_University" title="Drexel University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Drexel University</a> in 1966, majoring in economics and basic engineering. At Drexel, he was president of the debate society, vice president of the Student Senate, and a member of the varsity wrestling squad. In 1969, he received his J.D. from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Pennsylvania</a>, summa cum laude. Judge Randolph ranked first in his law school class and was managing editor of the Law Review.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">citation needed</a>]Judge Randolph then clerked for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2nd Circuit</a> Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Friendly" title="Henry Friendly" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Henry Friendly</a>, which began a career in law in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a>, moving between private practice, government, and academia.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">citation needed</a>]He started as the Assistant to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Solicitor_General" title="United States Solicitor General" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Solicitor General</a> for three years, went into private practice briefly, and returned as the Deputy U.S. Solicitor General from 1975 to 1977. He also taught at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University_Law_Center" title="Georgetown University Law Center" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Georgetown University Law Center</a> from 1974 to 1978. In 1979, Judge Randolph was appointed Special Counsel to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Standards_of_Official_Conduct" title="Committee on Standards of Official Conduct" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Committee on Standards of Official Conduct</a> (the Ethics Committee) of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States House of Representatives</a>, remaining in this position until 1980. He then stayed in private practice, becoming a partner at<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_Hamilton" title="Pepper Hamilton" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz</a>, until he moved to the bench in 1990. He held a number of positions while in private practice, including Special Assistant Attorney General for the states of New Mexico (1985–90), Utah (1986–1990) and Montana (1983–1990). He also served as a Member of the Advisory Panel of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Federal_Courts_Study_Committee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Federal Courts Study Committee (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Federal Courts Study Committee</a>. From 1971-1990, Judge Randolph argued 25 times in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" title="United States Supreme Court" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Supreme Court</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">President</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George H. W. Bush</a> nominated him in 1990<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#cite_note-bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> to replace the seat vacated by<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spottswood_William_Robinson_III" title="Spottswood William Robinson III" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Spottswood William Robinson III</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#cite_note-fjc-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>From 1993 through 1995 Judge Randolph was a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Committee_on_Codes_of_Conduct&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Committee on Codes of Conduct (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Committee on Codes of Conduct</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Conference_of_the_United_States" title="Judicial Conference of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Judicial Conference of the United States</a>, and from 1995 to 1998 served as the Committee's chairman.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">citation needed</a>]Judge Randolph took <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status" title="Senior status" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">senior status</a> effective November 1, 2008.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#cite_note-bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#Notable_cases" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Notable cases<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A.Raymond_Randolph&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Notable cases" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#Guantanamo_Bay" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-weight: normal; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Guantanamo Bay<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A.Raymond_Randolph&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Guantanamo Bay" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Odah_v.United_States" title="Al Odah v. United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Al Odah v. United States</a> was the first appeal before the D.C. Circuit challenging the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush_administration" title="George W. Bush administration" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bush Administration</a>'s policies regarding detention of suspected terrorists at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detainment_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detainment camp" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Guantanamo Bay</a>. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Al_Odah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al Odah (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Al Odah</a>, Judge Randolph wrote for a unanimous panel that the detainees at Guantanamo Bay did not have rights under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Constitution</a>. That decision was reversed by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Supreme Court</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasul_v.Bush" title="Rasul v. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rasul v. Bush</a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Congress</a> subsequently passed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detainee_Treatment_Act" title="Detainee Treatment Act" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Detainee Treatment Act</a>, which was intended to reverse the effect of the Supreme Court's decision in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasul_v.Bush" title="Rasul v. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rasul</a>.Judge Randolph also wrote the majority opinion for the D.C. Circuit in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdan_v.Rumsfeld" title="Hamdan v. Rumsfeld" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hamdan v. Rumsfeld</a>. Hamdan involved a challenge to the Bush Administration's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_military_commission" title="Guantanamo military commission" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">military commissions</a> to try designated "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_combatants" title="Enemy combatants" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">enemy combatants</a>" at Guantanamo Bay. Judge Randolph held for a unanimous court that the Administration had authority to conduct the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_military_commission" title="Guantanamo military commission" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">commissions</a> and that they were not in violation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions" title="Geneva Conventions" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Geneva Conventions</a>. Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F.Williams" title="Stephen F. Williams" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Stephen Williams</a> concurred in the judgment, disagreeing on the latter point. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Supreme Court</a> reversed the D.C. Circuit in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdan_v.Rumsfeld" title="Hamdan v. Rumsfeld" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hamdan v. Rumsfeld</a>. Again, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Congress</a> passed legislation, this time the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006" title="Military Commissions Act of 2006" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Military Commissions Act of 2006</a>, to reverse the effect of the Supreme Court's ruling.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasul_v.Bush" title="Rasul v. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rasul v. Bush</a> became <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boumediene_v.Bush" title="Boumediene v. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Boumediene v. Bush</a> when it came again before the D.C. Circuit. Judge Randolph again wrote the majority opinion. In Boumediene the court upheld the Military Commissions Act, which stripped the federal courts of jurisdiction to hear petitions of habeas corpus from aliens detained by the US Military. This time Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Ann_Wilson_Rogers" title="Judith Ann Wilson Rogers" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Judith Rogers</a>dissented. The petitioners in Boumediene asked the Supreme Court to reverse Judge Randolph's opinion. The Court denied their petition, but, in an unusual move, later reversed itself and granted certiorari, then reversed.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Raymond_Randolph#References" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; -webkit-user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>References<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; 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