Comments on: New York Judge Removed from Bench After Jailing Entire Courtroom Over Cellphone Interruption

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By: Removal of New York Judge Upheld for Jailing 46 People over Cell Phone « JONATHAN TURLEY

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:13:31 +0000

[...] bizarre conduct occurred after he heard a cell phone in his courtroom, click here. It is hard to see how to retain a judge, even with a good record, after such an outrageous use of [...]

By: deeply worried

deeply worried — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:28:46 +0000

In all likelihood I was reaching a bit…..

But it is fun to bring out one’s pet theories given even the slightest of provocations!

I think the judge in question was simply having a Very Bad Day.

But Professor Turley’s point is a good one. Corporate cultures/Judicial cultures…are there such things? How do they change?

We know the courts have always been sensitive to the public mood. Perhaps the current public mood is more authoritarian, illiberal, and boorish: and this gets reflected in the posture of the judiciary.

By: JR Lentini

JR Lentini — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:23:32 +0000

There may also be a feeling among judges, seeing the judiciary continually weakened by both the administration and popular attacks on their discretion (see also: Justice Sundays I-III), that their courtrooms are the last bastions where judicial authority has any meaning. Perhaps, in some instances, this leads to unrealistic conceptions of what behaviors are appropriate.

I, knowing personally a grand total of two judges, couldn’t say. But given the actual siege the judiciary is under, perhaps a siege mentality has set in and fostered some unhealthy notions and (dare I arrogantly conjecture) neuroses.

By: jonathanturley

jonathanturley — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:40:55 +0000

Interesting point. I actually see a more direct link in how judges are increasingly assuming arbitrary and capricious powers. Cable shows like Judge Judy and Judge Brown fuel this cable-show mentality for some judges.

By: deeply worried

deeply worried — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:48:50 +0000

an amusing story but there’s a darker undercurrent to this lighthearted narrative.

we are, at all levels, in government getting less and less tolerant of disruption qua disruption in all of its many forms.

free speech zones, Morse v Fredericks, tasering minimally aggressive civilians, and so forth and so on.

Sociologists would say this is a classic symptom of a society under unhealthy stress.