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376. Otherworld pt. 1

By Joel Jacobsen

Post 375 linked to this article about Justice Souter's lachrymose farewell speech to the Third Circuit conference. The article contained this weird passage: Without lawyers and the lawyers who go on to be become judges, he said, society would be prone to "private acts of vengeance." It's not like I thought Souter was a particularly street-wise guy - I mean, he admits to enjoying Swinburne, which is like admitting you like to drink Karo from the bottle while listening to Montovani. But it's still kind of shocking that he thinks he lives in a society that isn't prone to private acts of vengeance. Of course, he himself doesn't live in such a community, and neither does anyone he's been in the same room with since he left the trial bench in 1986...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).