Today's DJ articles

PJ Gilbert's column this month is Still Not My Vote: We in the judiciary and the legal profession must inform the public how an independent judiciary is vital to our democracy. He concludes: "All judicial decisions are and should be open to both criticism... and I hope praise once in a while. But however one might argue about the merits of a lawful judicial decision, it should not make the judge who made that decision subject to recall. As you can tell from the foregoing, the consequences are inimical to an independent judiciary."

The Moskovitz on Appeals column is Should lawyers 'make up' stories? and discusses some philosophical aspects of storytelling in the context of an established record of facts.