Opinion by Paul Waldman: Judge Cannon shows the courts have been politicized far beyond SCOTUS
it wasn’t enough to say they heard about a guy whose cousin’s girlfriend’s neighbor said he saw a van with a Joe Biden bumper sticker idling behind the board of elections building. WithoutBut Cannon swooped in to save Trump’s lawyers from the embarrassment of contradicting their boss.
She Dearie, allowing the lawyers to avoid taking a position on whether the inventory is accurate. Given the chance to draw a bright line marking the integrity of what goes on in court, she did the opposite.This may seem like a small thing. But it’s a direct assault on the idea that the courts are a venue where fairness prevails precisely because there are strict rules everyone has to follow, rules designed to get to the truth. Almost two years after Trump left office, the poison he injected into the courts with the appointment of a long list of hack judges is becoming more clear. It’s increasingly difficult to look at important court cases of recent days and believe that whether you like the outcome, the procedures have been fair, the judges have worked to be objective and the integrity of the courts is intact. Judges such as Cannon undermine a cornerstone of the legitimacy of the court system: the idea of “procedural fairness.” This topic has long been of interest to judges and lawyers, and that people’s perceptions of whether they were treated fairly is often just as important as the outcome in determining their feelings about the process.So how is the public supposed to believe we have procedural fairness in our court system when Republicans go shopping for a Trump judge who’ll strike down any law, regulation or presidential decision they disagree with — and so often succeed? When a case involving potential criminal actions by the former president is heard by a judge he appointed, a judge who will barely try to pretend she isn’t in the tank for him? The Supreme Court gets the most news, and its conservative majority has shown they have few limits on their policy ambitions (and
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