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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Maybe Judge Jerome Frank overstated things with his famous quip about justice as what the judge ate for breakfast (even if legal nerds/
#appellatetwitter types DO like to know what#SCOTUS justices eat for breakfast, from a celebrity perspective). (1/2) -
But what about a judge's religion, like Scalia's Catholicism? Or Ginsburg's feminism & history as a women's rights lawyer? Reasonable minds can disagree over whether this is personal trivia irrelevant to evaluating rulings or whether it's important. (2/2)
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Agree. Let's know about them -- religion, history, accomplishments. You need to know RBG's views about Trump to know what's key? Or Scalia's views about . . . well . . . about all the nonsense that he was asked by sycophantic or hyper-critical lawyers over and over and over.
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There is a kind of irony here. The last, best time to give candid information about themselves, their views, their backgrounds, etc. is their (first) confirmation hearing, before they have entered the judicial office. But what we get there is rehearsed kabuki. AFTER they have...
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...become life-tenured judges, occupying a particular kind of office, is not the best time for them to suddenly decide to open up about themselves and their views about the world, let alone participate in a cult of personality.
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