{"id":569,"date":"2009-03-15T20:25:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T01:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?page_id=569"},"modified":"2009-03-15T20:57:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T01:57:22","slug":"bad-judgement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?page_id=569","title":{"rendered":"Bad Judg(e)ment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Bad Judg(e)ment<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This three-part series was one of the first things I did upon starting the column.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many of the points I made here were ones the Editorial Board (understandably) was reluctant to make.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And one reason I started the column was to say just such things.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The fact is, our judges can be a stumbling block to justice.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They do and they are, far too often. These pieces scratch the surface a little.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">We lawyers know who the bad judges are.\u00a0 But professional discretion muzzles us, and ignorance stays the hand of the press.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=571\">Belling the Cat<\/a> (July 2004).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">A judge takes a drag on a joint and exhales an enormous controversy.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Peccant Judges<\/a> (August 2004).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">It is not a good thing that judges push litigants and counsel so hard to settle cases.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=577\">The &#8220;Disappeared&#8221; Trial <\/a>(September 2004).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Judg(e)ment \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This three-part series was one of the first things I did upon starting the column.\u00a0 Many of the points I made here were ones the Editorial Board (understandably) was reluctant to make.\u00a0 And one reason I started the column was to say just such things. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The fact is, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-569","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569\/revisions\/581"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}