It's easy to see why not - look at this ONE member...
Judge Patricia Wald...
...a graduate of Connecticut College (B.A. 1948) and Yale Law School (LL.B. 1951), was admitted to the Bar in 1952. She served, among other positions, as a law clerk to Judge Jerome N. Frank of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and as Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs in the Department of (Jimmy Carter) Justice prior to being appointed to the bench in 1979.
Judge Wald served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1979 until 1999, serving as Chief Judge of the Court from 1986 to 1991. She left the federal bench in 1999 to serve two years as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Judge Wald is a Council Member and First Vice President of the American Law Institute and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
She also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Justice Initiative. Judge Wald is the author of Law and Poverty (1965) and co-author of Bail in the United States (1964) and Dealing with Drug Abuse (1973), and she has also written numerous articles on legal subjects. Judge Wald is a member of the Executive Board of the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Institute and has sat on the Board of Editors of the ABA Journal. She has received some 20 honorary degrees and has been honored as well by the American and Women's Bar Associations and the Environmental Law Institute.
Judge Patricia Wald serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Justice Initiative !!
This is supposed to be an impartial judicial panel member?
www.soros.org/initiatives/osji George Soros OWNS a member on the panel!