Retired judge grades Trump's appointees —and finds some have 'lost their way'
It still chokes me up a little when I remember the moment when Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney swore me in, my right hand raised, as a Massachusetts Superior Court judge, saying, “Do you promise that you will defend and support the United States Constitution and the Massachusetts Constitution, so help you God?” This oath choked me up every time I took it over the last 22 years. Former musician New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur F. Engoron never heard the phrase “sober as a judge.” Admittedly, there was no jury in the case, but these Trump cases are not TikTok videos. Judge Engoron’s civil fraud case took about 13 months to get to trial. But Judge Chutkan, I’ll give you 3 out of 4 stars with an asterisk—we don’t know if your relative reasonableness is due to the Supreme Court looking over your shoulder or your good judgment.
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