Do not mean to be disrespectful, but SCOTUS is a good name for a pet dog. "Here SCOTUS. Come SCOTUS. Be a good SCOTUS." I cannot help myself, but lately I have been saying "Bad SCOTUS." And with the cases set for argument this term, SCOTUS needs a strong leash. Nobody's listening, but why doesn't SCOTUS and other courts write shorter opinions?
Law360 has One-Third Of Americans Open To Disbanding High Court about a startling survey released Monday.
The DJ's Exceptionally Appealing column today has Tricks and treats in Halloween precedent.
There's also been much press along the line of this Recorder article: Former Judges Join Call for Bar Investigation of John Eastman
In addition to [former Cal Supreme Court Justices] Grodin and Werdegar, the letter is signed by retired Northern District Judges Thelton Henderson, D. Lowell Jensen, and Fern Smith; Bay Area attorney and former ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich; James Brosnahan, senior of counsel at Morrison & Foerster; former San Francisco City Attorney Louise Renne; and UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Sixteen other law professors, former prosecutors and retired judges also signed.
Law360 also has Georgia's Court Chief: The Bruising Questions Lead to Wins, about the new Georgia Supreme Court chief justice known for asking tough questions during oral argument. He's quoted:
"If they are hard questions, that's because they are hard questions and if you don't have an answer for them, it's not that I'm being mean, it's that your case has a problem," said Chief Justice David E. Nahmias. "If they're stupid questions — and I occasionally, like all judges, ask stupid questions — that's the best question of all, because you get a chance to point out, 'Well, actually, that's not this case.'"
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