Thanks for the link. It does help to know the behind the scenes issues. It's sad that the pressure of being assigned the documents case did so much damage to her as a manager and that she's now got staff who lack the experience -- and possibly the clearance -- to be of real service to her and to justice.
Thanks for the link. It does help to know the behind the scenes issues. It's sad that the pressure of being assigned the documents case did so much damage to her as a manager and that she's now got staff who lack the experience -- and possibly the clearance -- to be of real service to her and to justice.
Barbara, David, Emily and MisTBlu, "I came across an interesting post about Judge Cannon. I had a very dim view of her actions to date and wondered if she were partisan. This piece added some nuance to the situation and made me step back from my initial assessment…seems things truly are more complicated than they seem on the surface."
Perhaps the best thing to emerge from getting a look behind the scenes does 2 things: 1) to restore some semblance of respect for a legal system and those on whom we rely to make it work which, on the whole, has served us relatively well through the past 2 centuries despite the deviance evident in a small minority of those judges;
2) the look behind the scenes helps remind us that "the truth" is ALWAYS more complicated than the headlines and summary judgments we make which allow us to proceed without having to think our way through the complexity or to simultaneously hold two different feelings about the same issue - a very human experience!
With absolute respect for the nuances of what is preventing Cannon from managing her trial correctly, or even adequately, the fact remains that she isn't.
I don't need to bad-mouth the woman or the judge, I just want to see justice done, and if she can't deliver for any reason or set of reasons, she should step down. A well-educated, intelligent, 40 year old person should have the self-awareness to know when s/he's failing at an important task and get help or get off it.
Thanks for the link. It does help to know the behind the scenes issues. It's sad that the pressure of being assigned the documents case did so much damage to her as a manager and that she's now got staff who lack the experience -- and possibly the clearance -- to be of real service to her and to justice.
Barbara, David, Emily and MisTBlu, "I came across an interesting post about Judge Cannon. I had a very dim view of her actions to date and wondered if she were partisan. This piece added some nuance to the situation and made me step back from my initial assessment…seems things truly are more complicated than they seem on the surface."
Perhaps the best thing to emerge from getting a look behind the scenes does 2 things: 1) to restore some semblance of respect for a legal system and those on whom we rely to make it work which, on the whole, has served us relatively well through the past 2 centuries despite the deviance evident in a small minority of those judges;
2) the look behind the scenes helps remind us that "the truth" is ALWAYS more complicated than the headlines and summary judgments we make which allow us to proceed without having to think our way through the complexity or to simultaneously hold two different feelings about the same issue - a very human experience!
With absolute respect for the nuances of what is preventing Cannon from managing her trial correctly, or even adequately, the fact remains that she isn't.
I don't need to bad-mouth the woman or the judge, I just want to see justice done, and if she can't deliver for any reason or set of reasons, she should step down. A well-educated, intelligent, 40 year old person should have the self-awareness to know when s/he's failing at an important task and get help or get off it.