Barbara, Thank You for the link to David Lat's article.
TFFG ruins everything he touches. He has cast a pall on our legal system. Now we have been retrained to doubt everything that comes out of our courts. I am skeptical about everything to some degree anyway, so it doesn't bother me that David Lat might be spinning his own bias in his w…
Barbara, Thank You for the link to David Lat's article.
TFFG ruins everything he touches. He has cast a pall on our legal system. Now we have been retrained to doubt everything that comes out of our courts. I am skeptical about everything to some degree anyway, so it doesn't bother me that David Lat might be spinning his own bias in his writing. But after reading his story about Judge Cannon's struggles with her clerks, and her thinking like an appellate judge when she needs to be thinking like a trial judge, etc, I find that I prefer that version, instead of casting her as a partisan hack.
I hate the idea that she is merely a partisan hack.
Similarly, I hate the idea that several members of the US Supreme Court will probably never be able to write a soaring opinion that advances the cause of justice well into the distant future. I wish there were some way that we could all work together to persuade Chief Justice Roberts to get in touch with his conscience, and begin to attempt to restore the dignity of the Court. And does Judge Cannon need more resources from DoJ, or whoever, to help with her workload on such an important case?
As I wrote earlier today, the case of the mishandled classified documents is too important to be allowed to fall by the wayside.
David, I believe that David Lat has possibly damaged his back by twisting himself into a pretzel to defend Cannon. What I see is yet another person seduced by the power around 45. She could have recused herself, but chose to stay on, not realizing how difficult it would be to try a widely publicized trial with a defendant whose business model is “never pay what is owed” and “delay until your opponent is broken and you never have to pay the full price”. A judge used to dealing with criminal sociopaths would have recognized the tactics; Cannon seems to have fallen for them. Jack Smith should appeal to the Appeals Court and they should rescue her before she drowns and rescue the American people from her bad decisions. This isn’t a hypothetical case in moot court; this is a fight for accountability to prove that this a nation of laws.
Once you are in Trump’s pocket (or Putin’s) there is no safe way out. But you might not know that until it’s too late. It doesn’t matter how smart you are or the school you graduated from or even if you can barely read at all, you know that he can,and will, reach in and squash you like a bug if you fail to praise him.
Terribly Faustian, and yet I have no sympathy. The moral of that story is that we should have NO truck with the devil... he's a liar and a cheat and will always find a way to make you regret your deal just before you roast in hell forever.
David H: I think it’s possible to think that both are true - she’s in over her head and she’s biased. These two “explanations “ aren’t mutually exclusive. I reacted to Lat as you did. As someone who remembers how it feels to face a bigger project than I could then handle competently…. And BTW, I don’t know anyone who could decline or recuse an assignment based on work overload.
Barbara, Thank You for the link to David Lat's article.
TFFG ruins everything he touches. He has cast a pall on our legal system. Now we have been retrained to doubt everything that comes out of our courts. I am skeptical about everything to some degree anyway, so it doesn't bother me that David Lat might be spinning his own bias in his writing. But after reading his story about Judge Cannon's struggles with her clerks, and her thinking like an appellate judge when she needs to be thinking like a trial judge, etc, I find that I prefer that version, instead of casting her as a partisan hack.
I hate the idea that she is merely a partisan hack.
Similarly, I hate the idea that several members of the US Supreme Court will probably never be able to write a soaring opinion that advances the cause of justice well into the distant future. I wish there were some way that we could all work together to persuade Chief Justice Roberts to get in touch with his conscience, and begin to attempt to restore the dignity of the Court. And does Judge Cannon need more resources from DoJ, or whoever, to help with her workload on such an important case?
As I wrote earlier today, the case of the mishandled classified documents is too important to be allowed to fall by the wayside.
David, I believe that David Lat has possibly damaged his back by twisting himself into a pretzel to defend Cannon. What I see is yet another person seduced by the power around 45. She could have recused herself, but chose to stay on, not realizing how difficult it would be to try a widely publicized trial with a defendant whose business model is “never pay what is owed” and “delay until your opponent is broken and you never have to pay the full price”. A judge used to dealing with criminal sociopaths would have recognized the tactics; Cannon seems to have fallen for them. Jack Smith should appeal to the Appeals Court and they should rescue her before she drowns and rescue the American people from her bad decisions. This isn’t a hypothetical case in moot court; this is a fight for accountability to prove that this a nation of laws.
I like your assessment here, Mary. This isn't a hypothetical, it is the first of its kind and will have lasting impact on the future of this country.
Once you are in Trump’s pocket (or Putin’s) there is no safe way out. But you might not know that until it’s too late. It doesn’t matter how smart you are or the school you graduated from or even if you can barely read at all, you know that he can,and will, reach in and squash you like a bug if you fail to praise him.
Terribly Faustian, and yet I have no sympathy. The moral of that story is that we should have NO truck with the devil... he's a liar and a cheat and will always find a way to make you regret your deal just before you roast in hell forever.
David H: I think it’s possible to think that both are true - she’s in over her head and she’s biased. These two “explanations “ aren’t mutually exclusive. I reacted to Lat as you did. As someone who remembers how it feels to face a bigger project than I could then handle competently…. And BTW, I don’t know anyone who could decline or recuse an assignment based on work overload.
All the same. Marge, she could recuse herself based on not having the experience to hear this case correctly. And agreed that she may also be biased.