"Over the summer, two federal judges - Judge Julien Neals of New Jersey and Judge Henry Wingate of Mississippi - issued orders that showed all the hallmarks of AI-hallucinated citations. In the Judge Neals case, the order included inaccurate factual references, quotes that don't appear in the cited cases, and the misattribution of a case to the wrong jurisdiction."
""No less than the attorneys who appear before them, judges must be held to the highest standards of integrity, candor, and factual accuracy," Grassley wrote both judges. "Indeed, Article III judges should be held to a higher standard, given the binding force of their rulings on the rights and obligations of litigants before them.""
"The Supreme Court hallucinating an individual right from the history and text of the Second Amendment shall remain blissfully unexamined. If only the judges had claimed their propositions were "deeply rooted in the Nation's history and tradition," they might be spared the indignity of having to reply to a letter from the chair of the Judiciary Committee."
Senator Chuck Grassley demanded explanations after two federal judges issued orders containing apparent AI-generated errors, including false quotations, inaccurate factual references, and misattributed cases. Judge Julien Neals's order cited nonexistent quotes and misattributed jurisdiction, while Judge Henry Wingate's order misquoted law and referenced parties and witnesses not involved in the litigation. Grassley emphasized that Article III judges must meet the highest standards of integrity, candor, and factual accuracy because their rulings bind litigants' rights and obligations. The episode is framed alongside criticism of political grandstanding and selective scrutiny of judicial reasoning in other prominent cases.
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