Immanuel Kant would’ve made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.

Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

The lawyer can reveal anything he is not forbidden to reveal. There are rules governing what a lawyer can say publicly about a litigation proceeding and those are meant to balance the interest in public discussion and the interest in an untainted trial.

The justice is a law into himself or herself on that issue.

It's not a basis for disqualification, so long as neither child is involved in the case.

It's unfortunate of course that what kept him from the swearing in was an activity that is itself of dubious ethical propriety.

For a court to award that kind of money, the court has to find an utter lack of basis

They suffered because of it, ... They were fearful because of it. They were in need of counseling because of it.

The rules dealing with gifts don't apply to Justice Thomas because the rules only apply to lower court judges. People give gifts to judges and justices because they have power. And they have power because of their position that they hold in trust. And to suggest that it doesn't matter, no one will care, seems to me to be whistling in the dark.