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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In general, I think it's better if people know MORE about the nine, unaccountable, unelected officials making crucial decisions about our nation. If the Court wasn't doing things like electing presidents and creating new rights for gun ownership, i might change my mind.
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Making big impacts sure, and we should scrutinize their backgrounds, accomplishments, judicial philosophies, and opinions. But their views about presidential candidates? Notorious BIG,. I need his talent, & the t-shirt. RBG? Not so much. I can read her stuff. Ditto Gorsuch/1
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2/I think the "we need to see & hear the real person in the flesh" narrative is nonsense. You and I and David have met gazillions of judges. Do you know more of value by chit-chatting with The Real Dick Posner? Not me.
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Truth be told, part of me would like to return to the ideal of judges as robots in robes who just follow "the law" (even if my career has benefited from the opposite trend). And we get closer to it with respect to lower courts, esp. trial courts. But (1/2)
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