Paul S. Diamond
{{Short description|American judge (born 1953)}}
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Paul Steven Diamond (born January 2, 1953) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and a former federal judicial nominee to be a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was appointed a federal judge by George W. Bush in 2004.
Education
Diamond was born in Brooklyn. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1974 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1977.{{Cite book |last1=Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |url=http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_050 |title=Columbia College today |last2=Columbia College (Columbia University) |date=September 2008 |publisher=New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |others=Columbia University Libraries}}
Career
Diamond was an assistant district attorney in the Philadelphia County District Attorney's Office from 1977–1979. In 1980 he served as a law clerk to Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Bruce W. Kauffman, who would later also be appointed as a judge on the Eastern District by President Bill Clinton). Diamond returned to the District Attorney's Office from 1981 to 1983. He worked in private practice in Philadelphia from 1983 to 2004, when he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Eastern District. Diamond also has worked as an adjunct professor of law at Temple University Beasley School of Law from 1990–1992.{{cite web |url=http://www.instablogs.com/entry/bush-nominates-judge-for-3rd-us-appeals-court/ |title=Bush Nominates Judge for 3rd US Appeals Court |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017093307/http://www.instablogs.com/entry/bush-nominates-judge-for-3rd-us-appeals-court/ |archivedate=2008-10-17 }} From 1993 until 1995, Diamond worked as the treasurer and as the counsel for the failed 1996 presidential campaign of United States Senator Arlen Specter.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202422708639 |title=Sources: Senators Agree on New Federal Judges Package |first=Shannon P. |last=Duffy |work=The Legal Intelligencer |date=July 2, 2008 |publisher=Law.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080707050034/http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202422708639 |archive-date=July 7, 2008 }}
=Federal judicial service=
On January 20, 2004, President George W. Bush nominated Diamond to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Herbert J. Hutton. Diamond was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 16, 2004 and received his commission on June 22, 2004.{{FJC Bio|nid=1392156|inline=yes}}
=Third Circuit nomination under Bush=
On July 2, 2008, the Legal Intelligencer reported that as part of a package of judicial nominees, President Bush had agreed to withdraw his then nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Gene E. K. Pratter and replace her with Diamond. On July 24, 2008, President Bush formally nominated Diamond to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in conjunction with Pratter's withdrawal.{{cite news |url-status=dead |last=Duffy |first=Shannon P. |url=http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423251503 |title=Five Tapped for Federal Bench Openings in Pennsylvania |work=The Legal Intelligencer |date=July 25, 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803201204/http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423251503 |archivedate=August 3, 2008 |access-date=July 25, 2008 }} Since Diamond was nominated after July 1, 2008, the unofficial start date of the Thurmond Rule during a presidential election year, no hearings were scheduled on his nomination, and the nomination was returned to Bush at the end of his term.
= Presidential election cases =
In 2016, Judge Diamond rejected Jill Stein's request for a recount of Donald Trump's victory in Pennsylvania.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/politics/pennsylvania-recount-blocked-jill-stein/index.html|title=Wisconsin, Pennsylvania certify Trump wins, ends Stein's recount push|first=Eric |last=Bradner |date=2016-12-12 |website=CNN}}
During the 2020 presidential election, Judge Diamond heard arguments from the Trump campaign who were seeking to stop Philadelphia's election board from counting remaining ballots. He advised the two parties to reach an agreement and he then dismissed the case without prejudice.{{cite web |last1=Briggs |first1=Ryan |title=Federal judge dismisses Trump's attempt to stop vote counting in Philadelphia |url=https://whyy.org/articles/trump-asks-federal-court-to-stop-vote-counting-in-phiadelphia/ |website=WHYY |accessdate=6 November 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105231227/https://whyy.org/articles/trump-asks-federal-court-to-stop-vote-counting-in-phiadelphia/ |archivedate=5 November 2020 |date=5 November 2020}}
References
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External Links
[https://medium.com/@paul-diamond/ Paul Diamond on Medium]
Sources
- {{FJC Bio|nid=1392156}}
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Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni
Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Category:United States district court judges appointed by George W. Bush