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OG Blockhead's avatar

Any lawyer who has been in court knows Habba is either full of shit or a Belgian-lace snow-flake queen of the fairies, because judges are just like that, even the polite ones. When they speak, you shut up and listen, and it's not personal. They're the law, ffs, and the bailiff over there will do what the judge tells him to. I've been told to sit down and be quiet, and I was winning the argument. The judge just didn't need me to talk and wanted to ream out opposing counsel. A judge in Santa Monica once asked me "What could you possibly have to add to this argument?" and I took that as a cue to shut the fuck up. It happens all the time. Motion practice in LA Sup. Ct. downtown is a fucking abattoir some days. And the pissing on Engoron's clerk is utterly baffling. Clerks run the fucking courtroom. The judges rely on them like no one else and they keep each others' confidences tight. If there's one person in a courtroom to extend every courtesy and politeness to, it's the clerk. This shit goes up on appeal, the appellate judges' staff are going to see that as an attack on themselves and advise accordingly. The shitshow record of Trump running his mouth like that? Fuck if they don't get a postcard from the appellate division, "Appeal denied without hearing."

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Edith Prickly's avatar

That sketch looks like Lindsey Graham as drawn by Edvard Munch.

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