A word about Judges

[grantcart]

A close family member is judge. Last year he ran for a higher judgeship in a rural area and was defeated.

The reason that he was defeated is that most people thought he was a liberal democrat based on his enforcing the law and making police follow procedures.

Most of his volunteers that worked for him were Democrats and thought he was a Democrat.

The fact is he is very conservative and as a practicing Catholic is strongly opposed to abortion.

When he puts the robes on he changes. He is a judge and he follows the law. He took an oath.

All of these comments about Kagan are completely laughable.

They are taking comments about what she said when she was representing a client (the US Government when she is Solicitor General) or when she was advocating a compromise piece of legislation when she was a policy staffer.

We have absolutely no evidence how she will vote as a judge. President Obama has worked with her for a year and being the clever guy that he is has a sense how she thinks.

It is not the same as when you look at Roberts or Sotomayor's record of being a judge and what decisions they authored as judges.

No one will know how that robe is going to influence her judicial temperment until she is sworn in and the admissable facts are presented to her with the appropriate questions of law. Up until that moment she has been offering legal opinions but not the opinions of a judge and you just can't tell how the solemn duty of following the law under oath informs a persons decision.

Frankly I think those that think that she is going to move the court to the right are going to be royally embarassed but its possible they are right. What is not possible is to discern what she will do as a judge based on what she was saying when she was an advocate, especially when she provided legal represenation as a lawyer.

[Cary]

1. Being an appellate or a supreme court judge is a lot different

than being a lawyer or a trial judge. Lawyering and being a trial court judge are much more difficult, actually.

As for the politics, well, it is what it is. Yeah, you kind of have to trust Obama's judgment. Not much else one can say or do.

[DevonRex]

2. You hit the nail on the head. It's similar to a defense attorney who

represents a client. Does he/she believe the client is guilty? Maybe so. But that attorney still represents the interests of the accused because that's what the job demands. That is what justice demands. It certainly doesn't mean that the attorney believes the guilty should all go free.

[Solomon]

4. I'm a lawyer and I've gotten sick and tired of people who don't

understand how the system works and defame lawyers for representing certain people. It's how we treat the most hated that determines the rights of us all. It's such a sick argument to talk about who a lawyer represented.

[grantcart]

5. Everyone hates lawyers until they need one

But you already knew that

[cliffordu]

3. Kicked.