Friday, March 3, 2023

J.Nicholson on collegiality in the 3d

Today's DJ has retired Justice George Nicholson's piece Modeling justice in Georgia, New York, and California: Some contrasts about the recent confirmation of Justice Mesiwala and "the story of two very different men": 

  • Bob Puglia was a conservative. Cole Blease was a liberal. Even so, their lives became intertwined and synergistic. They linger as compelling moral exemplars among judges appointed by governors of both parties since their parallel, alternately contending and collaborating, but always collegial judicial lives began.
  • Through it all, their animating, altruistic mindset has always been bolstered by the congeniality and integrity of Justices Puglia, Blease, and their past and present colleagues in all six appellate districts. Newly confirmed Justice Mesiwala is an inspired acolyte who has long shared that mindset, congeniality, and integrity.