by jpitney | Dec 2, 2023 | Civility, Judiciary, Supreme Court
Evan Thomas at WP: O’Connor, who cast the decisive vote in 330 cases over 24-plus years on the court and wrote the controlling opinions on major social issues such as abortion and affirmative action, understood that power and influence should be wielded with good...
by jpitney | May 13, 2023 | civic virtue, Judiciary
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Lawrence/Mayer ed., p. 274): Juries, especially civil juries, instill some of the habits of the judicial mind into every citizen, and just those habits are the very best way of preparing people to be free. It spreads...
by jpitney | Apr 25, 2023 | Civility, Judiciary
US Courts: In celebration of Law Day, federal judges are hosting programs in May and throughout the year to give students real-life experience with civil discourse and solid decision-making skills. “This is a no-cost program that has a high impact on students, not...
by jpitney | Aug 11, 2022 | Judiciary, Public Service, Violence
Madeline Fixler at JTA: Bruce Reinhart, the federal judge in Florida who signed the warrant allowing the FBI to raid former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on Tuesday, has been hit with a wave of antisemitic threats online. The outburst has appeared on...
by jpitney | May 18, 2021 | Civility, Judiciary
AP reports: Lawyers being admitted to practice in West Virginia would recite a pledge of civility under a proposal by the state Supreme Court. Supreme Court Chief Justice Evan Jenkins signed an order Monday that would put the proposal out for public comment, the court...
by jpitney | Jan 1, 2020 | Civic Education, Judiciary, Social Media, Uncategorized
Chief Justice John Roberts’s annual report: Hamilton, Madison, and Jay ultimately succeeded in convincing the public of the virtues of the principles embodied in the Constitution. Those principles leave no place for mob violence. But in the ensuing years, we...
