Monthly Archives: April 2014

Why did the Daily Beast censor this great advice?

Sometimes one bumps into a sheer mystery. Consider this piece I saw in the Daily Beast – about judges deciding cases where one of the parties is a company in which the judge has an investment, contrary to the (non-enforceable) court rules. … Continue reading

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Yet another reminder – from Gov. Christie this time – that “judicial impartiality” is a myth

Give this a listen, and ponder the question: why on Earth would Governor Christie of New Jersey want to replace his state’s judges? Why would he want to “remake the court in a more conservative image?” If the judges were … Continue reading

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Two singularities: of the black hole, and of the “due process of the law”

There are phenomenally interesting objects in the universe called “black holes,” astrophysicists tell us. They are tiny, but very powerful. They are former stars that instead of emitting light – like stars normally do – they suck light in; and … Continue reading

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Error vs. fraud: “wrong” decisions by judges vs. “non-judicial” ones

The members of the legal profession I talk to about judicial fraud invariably resort to the same histrionics. They spread out their arms, they roll up their eyes, they give their faces a somewhat painful expression, they sigh – in … Continue reading

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New York Times talks of “Unpalatable judges”

I don’t know how exactly they define those, but recently the editors of the New York Times used in their editorial the term “unpalatable judges.” The term was hyperlinked, and pointed to an article on which I also commented in the … Continue reading

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