{"id":868,"date":"2011-02-13T16:03:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2011-11-13T22:05:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:05:24","slug":"law-prof-is-right-on-robes-for-wrong-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Law prof is right on robes for wrong reason."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t take issue with Harvard law prof Noah Feldman&#8217;s concluding suggestion in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/13\/opinion\/13feldman.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=2\">his op-ed in the NYT<\/a> that maybe we should do away with judges&#8217; black robes, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=160\">I&#8217;ve suggested the same thing myself<\/a>. However, our rationales are fundamentally different. My rationale is that judges shouldn&#8217;t be politicians but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=463\">generally are<\/a>, and therefore don&#8217;t deserve as a class to wear something apparently designed to mislead people into believing they&#8217;re something other than what they are. Feldman&#8217;s rationale appears to be that judges not only are but <em>should <\/em>be politicians and <em>should<\/em> hobnob, &#8220;dr[i]nk regularly,&#8221; play poker and hunt ducks with other politicians, and therefore should lose the robes so people don&#8217;t think they should be anything other than what they are.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T Scott Greenfield at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2011\/02\/13\/should-a-justice-up-the-ante.aspx?ref=rss\">Simple Justice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t take issue with Harvard law prof Noah Feldman&#8217;s concluding suggestion in his op-ed in the NYT that maybe we should do away with judges&#8217; black robes, as I&#8217;ve suggested the same thing myself. However, our rationales are fundamentally different. My rationale is that judges shouldn&#8217;t be politicians but generally are, and therefore don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judges"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}