Spot on, @rickhasen. RBG the worst, but not the only, offender. Black robes bring isolation, but avoiding the limelight is the price you pay for the service & for the appearance of blind justice/1http://lat.ms/2EvqpyA
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2/judicial celebrity impacts public sense of independent judgment, whether or not the judge is influenced by celebrity. Also gives distorted sense of the overall role of the courts in constit democracy . .
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Yes, I'd love to hear from
@DavidLat on this topic. Underneath the Robes/Above the Law a big driver of this 30+ year of "judicial celebrity" movement. Assessment?@ElieNYC2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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I actually agree w/many of @DeanDBRodriguez &
@rickhasen's points. There are advantages to "judicial celebrity" - civic education, getting the public interested in law & policy, reminding us judges are humans, not robots - but there are disadvantages too.2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
for the law as a whole in terms of the important debates he sparked, but @RickHasen makes fair points about taking things too far. At the same time, it's not realistic/honest to pretend that judges lack personal views or what Posner calls "priors." (2/2)
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