What Would You Do as the Judge?
The Judge’s order is five pages long and well worth reading in its entirety. Many judges….perhaps most judges… never issue a gag order. But there lessons each of us can learn about how to appropriately deal with a litigant like former President Trump. The most important lesson is DO NOT LOSE YOUR COOL. (caps used in…
Leave The Families of Judges Alone
Donald Trump launched yet another attack against the daughter of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the trial regarding the former president’s alleged hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels,” Rolling Stone reports. “The post included photos of Merchan’s daughter… Trump has attacked the judge’s daughter at least three other…
Maybe Chief Judge Roberts Can Teach Us (and his colleagues too).
It was a little covered story and from a legal standpoint not a particularly noteworthy result. But Chief Justice Roberts, in a rare “in-chambers opinion” (a writing accompanying a circuit justice’s solo order), denied emergency relief to Peter Navarro—who had sought to be kept out on bail while he appeals his conviction for contempt of Congress.…
“Can Judges Help Ease Mass Incarceration?”
among the must check blog sites for judges is the Sentencing Law & Policy blog of Professor Doug Berman. The title of a recent post of professor Berman is the title of this new essay appearing in Judicature authored by Jeffrey Bellin. The essaay draws from Bellin’s recent book, “Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons…
Justice Stephen Breyer Interviewed By Adam Liptak.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s Supreme Court chambers are not quite as grand as those he occupied before he retired in 2022, but they are still pretty nice. As before, they include a working fireplace, which was crackling when I went to visit him on a temperate afternoon in late February to talk about his new…
Canada’s Supreme Court has majority of women justices for 1st time
Trust in the Canadian justice system depends on clear communication to the public, Canada’s newest Supreme Court justice said as she was officially welcomed to the country’s highest court. A welcoming ceremony was held Monday for Justice Mary Moreau, who was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge in November. Her appointment means a majority…
What Shall We Do About Safety?
Reuters: “Serious threats to U.S. federal judges have more than doubled over the past three years, part of a growing wave of politically driven violence.” There is no data base about serious threats to state judges nor is it easy to find data on serious threats to Canadian judges. But the absence of data should…
STATE CONSTITUTIONAL SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
Many times when state Supreme Courts make a ruling on independent state grounds based upon that state’s constitution there is some textual difference between the US Constitution and the state constitution. The opinion of the Hawaii Supreme Court begins by stating ” Article I, section 17 of the Hawai’i Constitution mirrors the Second Amendment to…
WHAT TO DE ABOUT “EMERGING ADULTS”?
Sentencing is never an easy task but surely deciding what to do with a teenager or your adult convicted of a brutal crime is a judge’s greatest challenge. The Massachusetts Supreme Court’s new ban on life-without-parole sentences for “emerging adults” under 21 follows a trend over the past decade that has seen more than two dozen states…
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