Shira Scheindlin, retired judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, discussing threats to judicial independence during a panel discussion titled “Undermining the Courts and the Media: The Consequences for American Democracy,” organized by The National Judicial College, at the Press Club building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, December 13, 2018.
The news media was criticized for routinely identifying the party of the president who appointed a judge. When making decisions, "we don't think about the president who appointed us," said retired federal judge Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York.
December 13, 2018 at 05:09 PM
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Federal and state judges on Thursday criticized the disparagement of the judiciary by President Donald Trump and others and urged lawyers, journalists and the public to defend and better understand what they do.
Speaking at a National Judicial College forum in Washington, retired federal appeals judge Andre Davis said, “One cannot overstate the concern we should all have over what is going on in this country in respect to the undermining effects” of criticism of judges by Trump and others.
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