16 Dec 2017 11:45 am
I'm absolutely sure that you're being both objective and honest.Misty » 15 Dec 2017 2:28 pm » wrote:He's filling the bench with nincompoops.
a great many lawyers have never argued a motion in court, and a majority, I am pretty sure, have never tried a case. Law is a specialized business.Litigators argue motions, take depositions and (sometimes) try cases. Non-litigators–a majority of the profession–don’t.
Matthew Petersen is not a litigator. He is a member of the Federal Election Commission and has expertise with respect to election law....
The lawyers who have the most thorough understanding of substantive areas of the law–real estate, taxes, corporate governance and so on–are generally not litigators. Do we really want to say that all of these non-litigators–the majority of lawyers–are unfit to be trial judges?....
I don’t know whether Matthew Petersen will make a good judge or not. But in my view, he doesn’t deserve to be ridiculed because his highly-successful law career has been conducted outside of the courtroom.
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