Today's DJ features Filling a Void in the Law, about Prop. 36 aka the Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012, by Justice Hoffstadt, who waxes poetic by starting off:
Argentine poet Antonio Porchia wrote, "We become aware of the void as we fill it." Judges fill voids in the tapestry of the law all the time, but rarely have occasion to step back and ponder different approaches to doing so.Impressive! Can't wait to see writ-denial postcards quoting Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto (aka Pablo Neruda): "Petition for extraordinary relief, being 'faint without substance, pure nonsense,' is hereby denied."
Phew! Now that precedent is secure.