Yes, TC, do wonder who has her ear and is whispering into it….seems like there is a very powerful shadowy “back-bench” influencing our judiciary at the highest levels. This is our country’s “ice bucket” challenge…hope we are shocked awake and rise to the occasion and keep our democratic republic. Time will tell.
Yes, TC, do wonder who has her ear and is whispering into it….seems like there is a very powerful shadowy “back-bench” influencing our judiciary at the highest levels. This is our country’s “ice bucket” challenge…hope we are shocked awake and rise to the occasion and keep our democratic republic. Time will tell.
Barbara, given your earlier very thoughtful DavidLa post, it would be both useful to our belief in a basically just legal system as well as entirely plausible that Judge Cannon had reverted to her earlier mode of functioning as an appellate lawyer (judge?) that she is actually trying to think through the prodigious complexities of this highest of profile cases with new, overworked and micromanaged clerks before issuing any rulings.
Maybe someday the truth & strategy will be known, high road or low…. I know our country professes “equal justice for all”, but come on, we all know despite that aspiration we haven’t really met that mark by a long shot. That this kerfuffle (large picture) is unique in our history, and involves so so so many players at different strata (regular Joe’s to members of Congress to former Cabinet members to a former POTUS…just to list some), will be a real test of our Judiciary and is being played out on a stage where all (globally) can see it.
Barbara I agree that we have seen various depradations of and by our legal system which demonstrate where we have missed the mark, depradations Joyce Vance, HCR, and Rachel Maddow have illuminated for us going back at least to WWII trials of how many congressmen (dozens?) regarding their conspiring with the Hitler regime yet a trial which ended up in a circus leaving no-one legally accountable yet none of them was re-elected. That these betrayals of and by our legal system remain so visible seems a commentary on the majority of the system which works sufficiently that we still recognize when it doesn't provide "equal justice for all." I have seen reporting about several efforts by various law schools to reconsider and retry the gravest miscarriages of justice for defendants on death row who have received inadequate defense council. No the system isn't perfect yet I'd ask which country's legal system would you trade ours for?
Yes, TC, do wonder who has her ear and is whispering into it….seems like there is a very powerful shadowy “back-bench” influencing our judiciary at the highest levels. This is our country’s “ice bucket” challenge…hope we are shocked awake and rise to the occasion and keep our democratic republic. Time will tell.
She's doing the bidding of those who put her on the court.. Leo Leonard and the billionaires who fund the Federalist Society.
Like the shadow docket in the SC??? Too many shadows to count
Definitely a film noir!!
Wish it were fiction
Barbara, given your earlier very thoughtful DavidLa post, it would be both useful to our belief in a basically just legal system as well as entirely plausible that Judge Cannon had reverted to her earlier mode of functioning as an appellate lawyer (judge?) that she is actually trying to think through the prodigious complexities of this highest of profile cases with new, overworked and micromanaged clerks before issuing any rulings.
Maybe someday the truth & strategy will be known, high road or low…. I know our country professes “equal justice for all”, but come on, we all know despite that aspiration we haven’t really met that mark by a long shot. That this kerfuffle (large picture) is unique in our history, and involves so so so many players at different strata (regular Joe’s to members of Congress to former Cabinet members to a former POTUS…just to list some), will be a real test of our Judiciary and is being played out on a stage where all (globally) can see it.
Barbara I agree that we have seen various depradations of and by our legal system which demonstrate where we have missed the mark, depradations Joyce Vance, HCR, and Rachel Maddow have illuminated for us going back at least to WWII trials of how many congressmen (dozens?) regarding their conspiring with the Hitler regime yet a trial which ended up in a circus leaving no-one legally accountable yet none of them was re-elected. That these betrayals of and by our legal system remain so visible seems a commentary on the majority of the system which works sufficiently that we still recognize when it doesn't provide "equal justice for all." I have seen reporting about several efforts by various law schools to reconsider and retry the gravest miscarriages of justice for defendants on death row who have received inadequate defense council. No the system isn't perfect yet I'd ask which country's legal system would you trade ours for?
Can't think of another repub action since the 80's that took the high road. Always aiming for the trip to China, as my Mom used to say.