Looks like the Carter-appointed judge was just a little too cozy with one of the plaintiffs.

According to her 2003 and 2004 financial disclosure statements, Judge Diggs Taylor served as Secretary and Trustee for the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (CFSEM). She was reelected to this position in June 2005. The official CFSEM website states that the foundation made a “recent grant” of $45,000 over two years to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, a plaintiff in the wiretapping case.

Talk about your all-time forum-shopping success stories. Normally, plaintiffs are just looking for a judge who may rule favorably… but rarely do you get to take your case before a judge who’s granted money to your cause.

Judge Diggs Taylor sided with the ACLU of Michigan in her recent decision.

Of course she did.